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Archives of Ukraine: Guide book / [State Archival Service of Ukraine, Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Keeping] Editorial board: Oleksandr Garanin (Editor-in-Chief), Mykola Gorbatiuk, Lyubov Shnurovska. – : Intercontinental-Ukraine. Ltd, 2012. – 232 p.

The guide book provides information about the structure and content of funds of central, local and branch state archives of Ukraine and information about the location of state archives, operation hours of reading rooms, web pages in the Internet and conditions for access to archival information. Guide book is based on materials provided by archival institutions of Ukraine.

For archivists, scientists and wide range of readers

ISBN 978-966-8508-15-8

© The State Archival Service of Ukraine, 2012 © The Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Keeping, 2012

2 Contents

Introduction 4 Th e State Archives of Region 131 Th e State Archives of Odesa Region 137 Th e Central State Archives 11 Th e State Archives of Region 143 Th e State Archives of Region 148 Th e Ukrainian Research Institute Th e State Archives of Region 152 of Archival Aff airs and Records Keeping 12 Th e State Archives of Region 156 Th e Central State Archives Th e State Archives of Region 160 of Supreme Bodies of Power Th e State Archives of Region 165 and 16 Th e State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Th e Central State Archives of Public Region 169 Organizations of Ukraine 20 Th e State Archives of Region 174 Th e Central State Historical Archives Th e State Archives of Region 178 of Ukraine in Kyiv 24 Th e State Archives of Chernigiv Region 182 Th e Central State Historical Archives Th e State Archives in the of Kyiv 187 of Ukraine in 29 Th e State Archives in the City of 191 Th e Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine named aft er Branch State Archives 197 G. Pshenychnyi 35 Th e Branch State Archives Th e Central State Scientifi c-Technical of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine 198 Archives of Ukraine 40 Th e Branch State Archives Th e Central State Archives-Museum of the Security Service of Ukraine 201 of Literature and Arts of Ukraine 46 Th e Branch State Archives Th e Central State Electronic Archives of the Ministry of Internal of Ukraine 51 Aff airs оf Ukraine 206 Th e Central State Archives of Foreign Th e Branch State Archives Ucrainica 53 of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine 210 Th e State Archives of Regions 59 Th e Branch State Archives Th e State Archives in the Autonomous of the Department of the State Republic of 60 Guard of Ukraine 212 Th e State Archives of Region 68 Th e Branch State Archives Th e State Archives of Volyn Region 73 of the Ministry for Foreign Th e State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Aff airs of Ukraine 214 Region 78 Th e Cartographic and Geodetic Th e State Archives of Region 83 State Fund of Ukraine 218 Th e State Archives of Region 89 Th e Branch State Archives Th e State Archives of Transcarpathian of Hydrometeorological Region 94 Service of the Ministry Th e State Archives of Zaporizhzhya of Emergencies of Ukraine 220 Region 99 Th e State Geological Information Th e State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Fund of Ukraine (Geoinform Region 105 of Ukraine) 223 Th e State Archives of Kyiv Region 111 Th e Branch State Archives of the Th e State Archives of Kirovograd State Service of Special Communications Region 116 and Information Protection of Ukraine 226 Th e State Archives of Lugansk Region 121 Th e State Archives of Lviv Region 126 OSG Records Management 229

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The distribution of state arhives in Ukraine & OSG Records Management

Central State Archives State Archives of Regions Branch State Archives OSG Regional Offices and Facilities

Introduction

Olga Hinzburh interdepartmental coordination on Th e State Archival Service of matters within its competence. Th e Ukraine is the central body of State Archival Service of Ukraine executive power which realizes was established according to the the government policy on Decree of the archival aff airs, records keeping No 1085/2010 of December, 9, and establishment and operation 2010 and is a legal successor to the 4 of the state system of security State Committee of Archives of copies documents as well as Ukraine. Introduction

Scale: 1:12,000,000

The Decree of the President of Ukraine – to make proposals on from , 6, 2011 No 407/2011 improvement of the approved the Regulations about “On the National Archival Fund and the State Archival Service of Ukraine. Archival Institutions”, other legislative Priorities of the State Archival Service documents; activities are: – to form the National Archival – to reform the archival system Fund, including acquisition by foreign of Ukraine according to Ukrainian Ucrainica documents (documents legislation on the National Archival of Ukrainian cultural heritage to be 5 Fund; preserved abroad, or documents Archives of Ukraine

Extended meeting of the board of the State Archival Service of Ukraine in the of Ukraine. 2012

of foreign origin about history of – to realize international Ukraine); cooperation in the sphere of – to provide the proper conditions archival aff airs and security copies of the National Archival Fund documentation. documents preservation; Th e network of state archives – to strengthen the state impact under the authority of the State on a non-governmental sector of Archival Service of Ukraine includes records management for the purpose 696 institutions. Among them are of improvement of socially important 13 central state archival institutions archival documents preservation; of Ukraine and 10 institutions of the – to develop and realize Security Copies Documentation. Th e programmes in the sphere of archival central state archival institutions of system informatization; Ukraine are as follows: – to promote a wide usage of the Central State Archives of archival information for realization Supreme Bodies of Power and of scientifi c, social, cultural and other Government of Ukraine; needs of citizens, the society and the the Central State Archives of Public State; Organizations of Ukraine; – to organize and coordinate the Central State Historical scientifi c-research and Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv; methodological work in the sphere of the Central State Historical archival aff airs, records management, Archives of Ukraine in Lviv; archeography, formation and a the Central State CinePhotoPhono long-term preservation of security Archives of Ukraine named aft er copies documentation, to popularize G. Pshenychnyi; scientifi c-technical information, to the Central State Scientifi c- provide implementation of science Technical Archives of Ukraine; 6 achievements and modern experience the Central State Archives-Museum in these spheres; of Literature and Arts of Ukraine; Introduction

the Central State Archives of archival institutions of the National Foreign Ucrainica; Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Central State Electronic museums and libraries which Archives of Ukraine; keep manuscript collections and the Ukrainian Research Institute documentary funds. of Archival Aff airs and Records Th e archival system of Ukraine Keeping; employs about 3 400 persons. the State Scientifi c Archival Library Th e State Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv; preserves more than 52,9 million the State Center for the NAF items of various documents of the Documents Preservation; NAF: managerial, personal, scientifi c, the Direction on the Central State technical etc. on paper basis; cine-, Archives Complex Exploitation; photo-, phono-, video documents the State Archives in the and others. Th e State Archives also Autonomous ; supervises archival departments of 24 state regional archives; the central and local governments, the State Archives in the of various institutions, and public Kyiv and Sevastopol; organizations selecting the most 488 archival divisions of regional valuable documents for permanent state administrations; keeping. 168 archival divisions of city Th e National Archival Fund of councils. Ukraine has an immense cultural Th e State Archival Service of and information capacity; it is one Ukraine manages activities of archival of the most signifi cant components institutions of other ministries and of public information resources, the departments having the right to concentrated Memory of the State hold documents, that is the Branch and the nation within eight centuries Archives of the Security Service of of written history (the most ancient Ukraine, the Ministry of Defence, the documents in the State Archives of Ministry of Internal Aff airs etc.; the Ukraine are dated by the XII–XIII

Roundtable at the National Agency of Ukraine for the Civil Service on experience of implementing electronic records circulation system in governmental agencies. 2010

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centuries); it is about 1000 km of states and a few international archival archival shelves! programmes: Th e archives of Ukraine receive “Memory of the World” to be more than 407 thousand applications realized under the aegis of the from both and foreigners UNESCO and being targeted to the per year. preservation of the most prominent Every year the state archives are cultural heritage of the world; visited by approx. 27 500 researchers; “Reconstruction of the Memory of 874 252 visitors of the offi cial web- ” to be realized by the Council portal website are fi xed annually. of Europe and the International Since 1956, the State Archival Council on Archives for the purposes Service of Ukraine is a Category A of reconstruction of Polish archival member of the International Council collections which were lost during the on Archives, a non-government period of 1772–1918; international professional Common archival heritage of organization which works under the countries and peoples of the Central aegis of the UNESCO. and Eastern Europe; Th e State Archival Service of Reconstruction of the documentary Ukraine and state archives under heritage and book collections of the its authority usually take an active Radzivilles. part at the CITRAs and the ICA Th e State Archival Service of Congresses. In 1996–2000 Ukrainian Ukraine signed international representatives were the members of agreements on cooperation in the the ICA Executive Committee, the archival sphere with the archival ICA/EUR and the ICA/CIT. In 2000– services and national archives of the 2004 they were elected to diff erent Republic of , the Republic of ICA committees. Azerbaijan, the Republic of , Th e State Archival Service of the Republic of , the Republic Ukraine is also a member of the of Armenia, the Hellenic Republic, Consultative Council of heads of state the Republic of Georgia, the Republic archival services of the CIS member of , the Islamic Republic of Signing the Iran, the Republic of Cooperation Kazakhstan, the Agreement Kyrgyz Republic, between the the Republic of State Archival Service of , the Republic Ukraine and the of , the National Archives Republic of , of the Republic the Republic of Cuba. 2012 of Poland, the Russian Federation, 8 , the Republic of , Introduction

Signing the Memorandum on Cooperation between the State Archival Service of Ukraine and the General Directorate of the State Archives of Bavaria (). 2012

the Republic of , the Republic of established by the Decree of the Hungary, the Republic of Uzbekistan, President of Ukraine – the Day of the Federal Republic of Germany, the national archival workers which is Republic of Cuba, the , observed each year on December, 24. the Republic of Montenegro. Th e State Archival Service operates Th e State Archival Service of the web-site containing information Ukraine cooperates with foreign about resources maintained by the archival, scientifi c and museum archives network of Ukraine and institutions and international related news (http://www.archives. societies. It signed agreements on gov.ua). cooperation with the Central Archives Each entry for the archives described of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs of in this guide book includes four Poland, the Holocaust sections of information: information Memorial Museum, the Saxon regarding administrative matters and Memorial Foundation dedicated to basic information about the archives; the memory of the victims of political a short history of the institution; dictatorship (Germany), Yad Vashem the extent of the collection, and the – Martyrs and Heroes contents of the funds. Photographs Remembrance Authority (). accompany each entry. Th e State Archives of Ukraine also Address: 24, Solomianska Str., cooperated with the Genealogical Kyiv, 03110 Society of Utah, the USA, till Tel: +380 (44) 275–27–77, January, 2012. 275–26–66 Th e Association of Ukrainian Fax: +380 (44) 275–36–55 Archivists signed agreements on E–mail: [email protected] cooperation with the Association Web: www.archives.gov.ua of Polish Archivists, the Society of Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 Historians Archivists of Transnistria, (to stop “Andryi Holovko Str.”) and the Russian Society of Archivists. Working hours: M-Th 8.45am– 9 In 1998, professional holiday was 5.45pm, F 8.45am–4.30pm Archival depository of old deeds. The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv 10 The Central State Archives

Th e Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Aff airs and Records Keeping Th e Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine Th e Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine Th e Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv Th e Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv Th e Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine named aft er G. Pshenychnyi Th e Central State Scientifi c-Technical Archives of Ukraine Th e Central State Archives-Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine Th e Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine Th e Central State Archives of Foreign Ucrainica

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The Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Keeping

Historical Background Th e Institute has begun its activ- ity on the 1st of November, 1994 under the Order of the Head of the Main Archival Administration by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in accordance with the Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the 24th of December, 1993 No 3815–12 “On the Order of Bringing into Force the Law of Ukraine “On the National Archival Fund and Ar- chival Institutions” and the Resolu- tion of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on 16th of May, 1994 No 311 “On Founding in Kyiv the Research Institute of Archival Aff airs and Records Management”. Address: 24, Solomianska Str., Th e priority task was the conduction Kyiv, 03110 of archival aff airs and record keep- Tel.: +380(44)275–53–82 ing theoretical research. At the same Fax: +380(44)275–13–74 E–mail: [email protected] time the agenda issues included the Web: undiasd.arhives.gov.ua development of acts and other nor- mative and legal documents, stan- Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 (to stop “Andryi dards of preservation and description Golovko Str.”) of the archival records, basic rules of state archives work, methodological Worкing M–Th 9 am – 6 pm, hours: F 9 am – 4.45 pm manuals on preparation of branch lists of records with the terms of pres- Director: Oleksandr Garanin, ervation, other guides on records PhD (History) keeping issues which predetermined foremost the applied character of the URIAARK activity and carrying out of its researches as a branch institu- tion in accordance with the orders of higher level institutions. Th e Institute 12 de-facto began its activity in Janu- ary, 1995. Its fi rst scientifi c researches Central State Archives were: “Concept of Archival Aff airs Scientifi c and applied elaborations Computerization System” (1998), cre- of the Institute enjoy deserved author- ated by the collective of authors under ity among specialists and users. direction of L. Dubrovina, According to the Studies “Concept of Training and Order of the Minis- on Archival Postgraduate Education try of Education and Affairs and of the Archival Institution Science of Ukraine Records Keeping Staff ” (1998), prepared by No 265 from 2003 a temporary creative col- and to the Resolution lective in com- of the Higher Attes- position of I. Ma- tation Committee of Archival Science. tiash, I. Kalakura, Ukraine No 3–1/5 Glossary of Terms V. Lozitskyi, from 2003 at the K. Seliverstova, Institute is created “Concept of the Specialized Sci- Defence of Na- entifi c Council with tional Interests the right of taking to of Archival Af- the consideration and carry- fairs” (authors: ing out the defence of theses L. Dragomirova, to obtain the scientifi c degree K. Novokhatskyi, of PhD in specializations: 2002). Prior re- 07.00.06 – Historiography, search directions Source Studies and Special crystallized in the process of activity: Historical Disciplines, 27.00.02 – historical and archival, biographic, ter- Documents Studies, Archives Studies. minological, chemical and biological, Within 9 years of the Council activity and informatizational. took place 48 defenses of theses by the Nowadays the Institute is a well- employees of the archival and research known scientifi c institution in institutions, higher educational estab- Ukraine. Of 34 employees of the lishments of Ukraine. Institute 5 are Doctors of Sciences, Since 2003 there is available dis- 17 – Doctors of Philosophy and 5 of tant postgraduate course on special- them have a scientifi c rank of Pro- izations 07.00.06 – Historiography, fessor, 4 – Senior Research Workers, Source Studies and Special Historical 4 – Associate Professors. Employ- Disciplines and 07.00.01 – History of ees of the Institute are members of Ukraine, called to provide archival scientifi c and specialized councils system with the highly qualifi ed em- of other scientifi c institutions, the ployees. Collegiums of the State Archival Th e URIAARK closely cooperates Service of Ukraine, international with related academic institutes, archi- organizations of archivists and edi- val institutions, higher educational es- torial boards of many academic an- tablishments (Mykhailo Grushevskyi 1313 nuals. Institute of Ukrainian Archeography Archives of Ukraine

and Source Studies, Volodymyr Ver- Special attention of the Institute is nadskyi National Library of Ukraine, paid to the publishing: “Studies on Ar- Vasyl’ Karazin National of chival Aff airs and Records Keeping” – Kharkiv, National Uni- scientifi c annual of the URIAARK, versity of Lviv, State has been published since 1996 (19 Pedagogical University of Chernigiv volumes are published), “Pam’yatky” etc.) and 10 agreements on collabo- (commemorative booklet) – archeo- ration are signed (Historic faculty of graphic annual (11 volumes are pub- Taras Shevchenko National Univer- lished), “History of Archival Aff airs: sity of Kyiv; Institute of the Humani- Memoirs, Researches, Sources” (9 ties of National Aviation University; volumes are published), “Archival and National University of Kherson; Olek- Bibliographic Sources of the Ukrai- sandr Lazarevskyi History, Ethnology nian Historical Idea” (14 volumes are and Institute of Taras published) – serial additions, has been Shevchenko National Pedagogical published since 1998, “Archival Stud- University of Chernigiv etc.) ies. Archeography. Source studies” – Th e Institute constantly interacts interdepartmental scientifi c collec- with the All-Russian Archival Science tion, has been published since 1999. and Records Management Research Th e Institute has revived the tradi- Institute, the Belarusian Research tion of systematic conducting of in- Institute of Records Management ternational and All-Ukrainian con- and Archival Studies, the Canadian ferences, scientifi c readings, which Institute of Ukrainian Studies of solve the vital problems of archival af- University of Alberta. Th e result of fairs: scientifi c conference “Ukrainian collaboration was edition of range of Archival Studies: History, Modern textbooks and manuals on archival Condition and Prospects”, conducted studies, the terminology dictionary, in 1996, “Archival and Library Af- “Ukrainian Archival Encyclopaedia”, fairs in Ukraine of 1917–1921” – in reference book “Archival Ucrainica 1997; “National Archival Inheritance: of Canada” etc. Problems of Preservation”, “Archives and Person” – in 1999; During the “Archives – Component meeting of the of Society-Information Specialized Resources” – in 2001; “Ar- Scientific chives and Region Studies: Council of Ways of Integration” – in the URIAARK on defence 2003; “Modern State and of PhD Prospects of Development theses. 2012 of Records Keeping” – in 2004; scientifi c reading de- voted to V. Modzalevskyi’s 14 125th anniversary – in 2007; scientifi c reading de- Central State Archives voted to B. Ivanenko’s 75th an- niversary and number of branch seminars – in 2008; international scientifi c conference “Archival Management as a Science” – in 2009. Th e Institute arranged the round table dedicated to the problem of registry of terms of “Ukrainian-English Archival Terminology Dictionary” along with the discussion of the “Con- cept of Ukrainian-English Ar- Management Reader” (2003) com- During the chival Terminology Dictionary”, held prises legislation acts, methodical Tripartite in 2011. guidelines on activity of archival es- Meeting. Velykyi Novgorod, During the work of the Institute our tablishments, scientifi c articles on key . October, scientists have accomplished about problems of archival keeping; “Ukrai- 2011 200 scientifi c and teaching materials nian Archival Encyclopaedia” (2008) – including manuals, reference books, the fi rst in Ukraine encyclopaedic industry and government standards, edition, which generalizes achieve- rules, orders, regulations, guidelines, ments of native archival keeping in its policy briefs etc. In particular, manual interconnection with other branches “Archival Management” (2002) de- of historic science and adjoining picts the problems of archival keeping disciplines, representing historic ex- as a scientifi c system and study disci- perience of Ukrainian archival es- pline, viewing the issues of archival tablishments, personal acquirements aff airs history, legislation bases and of outstanding archivists, providing structure of the National Archival database about foreign archival estab- Fund of Ukraine, principles of archi- lishments. val aff airs organization and activity of Since 2006 the Institute works on state archival establishments; educa- interarchival reference book “Com- tional accessory “Outlines of the His- posite Catalogue of Parish Registers tory of Archival Aff airs in Ukraine” Kept in the State Archives of Ukraine”. (2002) – the fi rst complex scientifi c Th is multivolume edition comprises research of Ukrainian archival keep- database about collections of parish ing development till nowadays, registers in state archives of Ukraine. which views the history of creation Th e book contains information about and functioning of archives (includ- parish registers of various churches: ing church, monastery, military, party Greek (Orthodox), Rom-Catholic, archives), formation and migration Greek-Catholic, Protestant and Juda- of private collections, peculiarities of ic. It also includes the records in par- the archival development, organiza- ish registers about birth, marriage, di- tion of archival education, growth of vorce, death. 10 volumes in 14 books 15 the archival keeping etc.; “Archival are planed to be published. Archives of Ukraine

The Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e history of the Archives dates back to 1921, the year in which the Central Archives of Revolution was founded, when documents concern- ing the history of the revolutionary movement and the documents of the central institutions of 1917 were gathered. Th e Archives funds also included fi les of the Central Employ- ment Archives, established in 1926, and the All-Ukrainian Central State Archives (1930). In spring, 1941 the decision was made to establish the Central State Archives of the Oc- tober Revolution and Socialist De- velopment of the Ukrainian SSR in

Address: 24, Solomianska Str., Kyiv, the fulfi llment of which was Kyiv, 03110 hindered by the War. In July, 1941, Tel.: +380 (44) 275-36-66 three central archives that were sup- Fax: +380 (44) 275-12-55 E-mail: [email protected] posed to be united into the Central Web: tsdavo.org.ua State Archives of the October Revo- lution and Socialist Development of Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 (to stop “Andryi the Ukrainian SSR were evacuated to Golovko Str.”) Ural, to the town of Zlatoust, where they operated until November, 1943. Worкing M–Th 9 am – 6 pm, hours: F 9 am – 5 pm In December, 1943 the Central State Archives of the October Revolu- Director: Nataliya Makovska, tion and Socialist Development of PhD (History) the Ukrainian SSR began operating in Kyiv with a branch in the city of Kharkiv. In September, 1945 the Central State Archives of and Socialist Develop- ment of the Ukrainian SSR was transferred to Kharkiv. 16 In December, 1969 the Central State Archives of the October Revo- Central State Archives lution and Socialist Development of the following: the Universal Decrees the Ukrainian SSR was transferred of Ukrainian Central Council, draft s back to Kyiv. By the Oder of the Pre- of the Constitution of the People’s sidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Ukraine (December, Ukrainian SSR July, 17, 1978 the Ar- 1917), the Constitution of the Ukrai- chives was awarded with Honorable nian State (1918), the Act of Union Diploma of the Presidium of the Su- of the People’s Republic of the West preme Council of the Ukrainian SSR. Ukraine (ZUNR) and the People’s Re- In June 6, 1980 the Archives re- public of Ukraine January 22, 1919, ceived the new name: the Central crucial legislative documents of the State Archives of the October Revo- period of national fi ght for liberation lution, High State Authorities and of the Ukrainian nation between 1917 Government Bodies of the Ukrainian and 1920, documents of the People’s SSR. Republic of West Ukraine, and of the In July, 1992, the name of the Ar- Carpathian Ukraine. chives was changed to the Central Th e Soviet period of the modern State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Ukrainian history is represented by Power and Government of Ukraine documents of the supreme authori- (CSASBPG of Ukraine) ties and governmental bodies of the Total Volume of Funds USRR–USSR (1917–1991), national– 3 355 funds, 2 106 578 units col- level institutions, companies, and or- lected from 1917 to 2011 (31 396,55 ganizations, trade unions, public as- l. m); 20 364 units documentation sociations, religious denominations, collected. which refl ect the national, political, Description of Archival Holdings socio-economic, and cultural life of Th e funds of the Central State Ar- Ukrainian society, as well as interna- chives of Supreme Bodies of Power tional relations with Ukraine. and Government of Ukraine contain Among other documents of the So- documents of various governmen- viet period of the Ukrainian history tal structures that operated within are those which capture the process Ukraine during the tumultuous XX century: the Ukrainian Central The register Council of the People’s Republic of of archival files and publications Ukraine (March, 1917 – April, 1918); of the Central the Ukrainian State of Pavlo State Archives Skoropadskyi (April-November, of the Supreme 1918); the Directory of the People’s Bodies of Power and Government Republic of Ukraine (November, of Ukraine 1918 – February, 1919), the USRR– USSR (1917–1991). Th e Archives preserves unique documents from the period of the Ukrainian Revolu- 17 tion of 1917–1920, among which are Archives of Ukraine

The Universal documents and materials pertinent of the Directory of the Ukrainian to the preparation of the Main Law of on the National Ukraine as well as the adoption of the Republic union during the with the Western- fi ft h session of the Verkhovna Rada Ukrainian National Republic. January, on June 28, 1996. 22, 1919 Th e “ archives”, a treasure trove of national spiritual values, are a unique set of documents contain- ing the achievements of scientifi c and cultural work of the Ukrainian emigrants within the period between the two world wars. Th e largest part of these émigré materials was trans- ferred from the Prague archives. Th is set of documents refl ects the activi- ties of state bodies of the People’s Re- of the preparation of the Constitu- public of Ukraine and military orga- tions of the URSR and USSR and nizations. Th ey contain information their amendments and additions. regarding prisoners of war and in- Th rough these archival documents, ternment camps, the activities of or- one can track the complex events of ganizations assisting emigrants, and the transition from the Soviet Repub- student organizations. Th ey also de- lic to the independent state. Here are scribe publishing activities, the work preserved the Acts of Proclamation of educational institutions, research of State Independence of Ukraine, institutes, archives, museums, librar- Diplomatic ies, and the activities of community passport of Julian organizations. Bachinskyi, In March, 1996, the Central State counsellor of Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power Extraordinary mission of the and Government of Ukraine was re- Ukrainian National plenished with the documents of the Republic in the government of the People’s Republic USA. January, 31, of Ukraine in exile within the period 1919 from 1946 till 1992, which were trans- ferred from Canada. In July, 1999, the Archives accepted the documents of the Mission of the People’s Republic of Ukraine in , dated 1919 through 1924. Also unique among of collections of 1818 the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Central State Archives

Web-page of the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine. March, 2012

Ukraine (CSASBPG of Ukraine) are labor in Germany, memorabilia, etc. documents of World War II period, in- Th e achievements of many individu- cluding the funds of organizations, in- als are also maintained within the ar- stitutions, enterprises and formations chival documents of the Central State which were part of the occupational Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power regime or operated under the control and Government of Ukraine, includ- of the occupation authorities. Among ing those of M. Grushevskyi, V. Vyn- these are the funds of the headquarters nychenko, P. Skoropadskyi, S. Pet- of the Imperial leader (reichsleiter) liura, H. Petrovskyi, M. Khrushchov, Rosenberg concerning the occupation V. Shcherbytskyi, D. Antonovych, of eastern and western regions, the D. Doroshenko, S. Rusova, O. Teliga, Reich Commissariat of Ukraine, the M. Butovych, I. Ohienko, Yu. Kosach, General Commissariat of Ukrainian M. Sadovskyi, P. Tychyna, O. Dov- post-offi ces, and others. Th e Archives zhenko, O. Korniichuk, O. Bohomo- contains extensive documentation of lets, M. Strezesko and may other “no- the Organization of Ukrainian Na- tables” of the modern era of Ukrainian tionalists, and of the Ukrainian Rebel- history. lion Army. Th e collections of the Cen- Th e Archives is annually replenished tral State Archives of Supreme Bodies by new additions which document of Power and Government of Ukraine the post-1991 activities of the Presi- (CSASBPG of Ukraine) pertaining dents of Ukraine L. Kravchuk and to World War II period preserve the L. Kuchma, the Verkhovna Rada and testimonies of and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, underground movements, the exil- and the ministries and the depart- 1919 ing of Ukrainians to perform forced ments of the period. Archives of Ukraine

The Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine

Historical Background History of the Central State Ar- chives of Public Organizations of Ukraine (CSAPO of Ukraine) is closely connected with the history of the development of the archival estab- lishments of the CPSU. Th is Archives was founded in 1929 and was named as “the United Party Archives” of the Party’s History and the October Revo- lution Institute in Ukraine attached to the Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of Ukraine. It was one of the 30 departments of the Lenin’s Ar- chival Institute attached to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the . From December,

Address: 8, Kutuzova Str., 1939 to June, 1945 the Archives had Kyiv, 01011 status of independent establishment Tel.: +380(44)285-55-16 under the name “the Central Party’s Fax: +380(44)285-73-51 E-mail: [email protected] Archives of the Central Committee Web: cdago.gov.ua of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, and aft erwards again submit- Transport: Metro (to station “”); ted as a department of the Ukrainian bus No 62, 55; branch of the Marx-Engel’s-Lenin- trolleybus No 38 Stalin’s institute (the name of the Insti- (to stop “Kutuzova Str.”) tute was changed: from 1956 it was the Reading M–Th 8.30am – 4.30pm Party’s History Institute of the Central room F 8.30am – 3.30pm Committee of the Communist Party hours of operation: of Ukraine – the department of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism at- Director: Volodymyr Lozytskyi, tached to the Central Committee of PhD (History) the Communist Party of the USSR; from February 1974 – the Institute of the Party’s History attached to the Central Committee of the Commu- 20 nist Party of Ukraine was the depart- ment of the branch institute of Marx- Central State Archives

Pages from the ism-Leninism attached to the Central criminal case of Committee or the Communist Party O. Grushevskyi. of Soviet Union). In 1991 it was reor- 1938 ganized in the Archives of the Com- munist Party of Ukraine and it was a department of the Political Research Institute of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Th e Archives got its modern status aft er passing documents of the Com- munist Party under the obedience of the Central Archives Board attached to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine according to the Decree of the Pre- sidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine from the 27th of August, 1991. Documents from the funds Total Volume of Funds of partisan Th e Archives preserves 204 funds, connections 283 561 units from 1918 to 2006 during the Great (some documents are from 1870 to Patriotic War. 1941–1944 1917). Description of Archival Holdings Documentary of the Archives con- tain the information of all aspects of the contemporary : most documents are concentrated in funds of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Central Commit- tee of the Leninist Youth Communist League of Ukraine, political parties, “partisan complex” – the Ukrainian staff of the partisans movement and Museum partisans formations, detachments, of liberation struggle brigades, regiments (1941–1945); col- of Ukrainian lections of the commissions from the people history of the Civil and Great Patriotic in Prague Wars, “Ukrainian museum in Prague”, “Collections of the non-judicial cases of rehabilitated”; documents of per- sonal origin (F. Sergeev (Artem), G. Petrovskyi, S. Kovpak, D. Korotch- 2121 enko, O. Fedorov). Archives of Ukraine

Documents of the Communist publishing houses, that were under Party of Ukraine are in 24 funds. the Communist Party of Ukraine. Th e largest of them is the fund of Documents of funds of the fi rst the Central Committee of the Com- fourth of the XX century, the period munist Party of Ukraine (counts of the Ukrainian Revolution (1917– 77 descriptions), where there are 1920), and the Civil War (1918–1920) many shorthand records of the con- give the complete picture of many gresses, conferences and plenums, Ukrainian political parties: the So- documents of the Political Bureau, cialists-Revolutionaries (borot’bysty), organization bureau, secretariat af- the Social-Democrats (nezalezhnyky), ter 1918–1991, departments of the the Social-Federalists, the Ukrainian Central Committee, informative ma- Communist Party, the Communist terials of regional committees of the Party of East . Party, the commission of the Party’s Th e Archives preserves almost full control attached to the Central Com- fund of Jewish political parties and or- mittee of the Communist Party of ganizations: Bund, Komfarband, Poa- Ukraine. Th ey give all the informa- lei-Tsion, local committees of these tion on the formation of party-state’s parties, youth organizations. system of that time, characterize po- Th e documents of the anarchists’ litical, economical, cultural life of the movement under the head of Makhno Republic. (diaries of his wife, appeals, orders and Opening other documents) are also preserved of a joint in the Archives. In the documents documentary about the development of the national exhibition dedicated to the in 1920s there can be found 25th anniversary many records about the activities of of national-communists O. Shyumskyi, disaster. April M. Skrupnyk, M. Khvulovyi, G. Lap- 26, 2011 chynskyi; famous scientists: M. Gru- shevskyi, S. Efremov, A. Krymskyi. Among them – the documents of Th e documents of the Archives the General Department of the Cen- give possibility to explore the period tral Committee of the Communist of the repressive policy of Party of Ukraine (secret part), meet- in Ukraine (collectivization of agri- ings of the Political Bureau, the Orga- culture and destruction of peasants- nization Bureau and the Secretariat owners, starvation, pursuits of intel- of the Central Committee and mate- ligentsia, clergy and other). rials from them. Documents of other Th ere are many documents about fund formers are connected with the the events of World War II on the ter- fund of the Central Committee of ritory of Ukraine. Th ey consist of the the Communist Party of Ukraine – activity of the Party leaders of Ukraine; 22 research establishments and edu- of the occupation regime of Nazi in- cational establishments, the Party’s vaders; the Party and Komsomol un- Central State Archives

Documents derground; the partisans movement, from the funds in particular, formations by S. Kovpac, of partisan O. Fedorov, M. Naumov, O. Saburov connections on the territories of during the Great Patriotic and Poland; the activity of the Orga- War. 1941– nization of Ukrainian Nationalists 1944 and the Ukrainian Rebellion Army (OUN–URA) Many documents of post-war pe- riod contain the information about the starvation in 1946–1947, activity of the OUN–URA, refl ect the devel- opment ideological processes in the society, fi ghting against the various displays of dissidence, show the posi- Documents of tion the leaders of Ukraine, their rela- political parties tionships with the center of the USSR and public and others. Prehistory, chronicle of associations of the accident and the consequences Ukraine. End of the XX – of the are fi xed beginning of in documents. the XXI century Th e documents of Prague Museum of Liberation Fight of the Ukrainian people are preserved in the Archives. Th ey are valuable documents testify- ing the activity of public associations and organizations of Ukrainians on the territory of foreign countries in 1920–1940. Th e fund of the Muse- um consists of the documents of the Ukrainian academic society, the Cen- New documentary fi le is being tral emigrant union of the Ukrainian formed within the Archives, i. e. funds students, the Ukrainian historical- of contemporary political parties. philological society, the Brotherhood Documents of public association Nar- of former UPR fi ghters, the Union of odnyi Rukh of Ukraine, Ukrainian Ukrainian plastuns (analogue of scouts Republican Party (URP), Democratic organization), the Union of Ukrainian Party of Ukraine (DemPU), Social doctors etc. Correspondence of many Party of Ukraine, Ukrainian People’s Ukrainian prominent public fi gures is Party “Sobor” have been taken for also represented – V. Vynnychenko, preservation. Th e Activities aims at E. Petrushevych, S. Smal-Stotskyi, preparation and transfer of the funds O. Kandyba, V. Petriv, A. Livytskyi, of other political parties to CSAPO of 23 M. Antonovych, S. Petlyura etc. Ukraine. Archives of Ukraine

The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv

Historical Background Th e Central State Historical Ar- chives of Ukraine in Kyiv is one of the oldest archival reposito- ries of Ukraine. Th e history of the CSHAUK dates back to 1852, the year on which the Central Archives of Old Deeds was founded. Th e Ar- chives funds also included a part of collection of the Central Archives of the October Revolution (found- ed as the Slobozhanskyi Archives of Revolution), and the Kyiv Re- gional Historical Archives (found- ed in 1922 as the Central Historical Archives in the City of Kyiv, re- named in 1932). Th e CSHAUK was

Address: 24, Solomianska Str., founded and registered in marked Kyiv, 03110 consistence by the Order of NKVD Tel.: +380 (44) 275-30-02 of the USSR on July, 24, 1941. Fax: +380 (44) 275-30-02 E-mail: [email protected] In 1941 process of reorganiza- Web: cdiak.archives.gov.ua tion of the CSHAUK was fi nished. In 1971 it was supplemented with Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 (to stop “Andryi the records by Kharkiv branch of Golovko Str.”) the CSHAUK (founded in 1880 as the Historical Archives of Kharkiv Reading M–F 9am–5pm room hours University, 1920 reorganized to of operation: Central Historical Archives; in 1932 transformed to the All- Director: Ivan Kisil, PhD (History) Ukrainian Central Archives of Old Deeds, 1943 renamed as a branch of the Central State Historical Ar- chives of Ukraine in the City of Kharkiv). In July, 1992, the name of the Archives was changed to the Cen- 2424 tral State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv (CSHAUK). Central State Archives

Law books dating Total Volume of Funds from the XV–XVIII 1 619 funds, 1 301 399 fi les for centuries of the the time period from XIII century courts and estate until 1917 (38 000 linear meters). institutions of Right-Bank Ukraine Description of Archival Holdings Th e funds of the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv contain documents of diff er- ent periods of Ukrainian history: tions. Among others there are Li- when Ukraine was a part of Lithu- onskaya Inkanabula (1454); Basel’s, ania and Poland (from the XIII Leipzig’s, Stuttgart’s Paleotypes until XVIII century), a part of the (beg. XIV century); Ostrozhska (from the begin- Bible (Ivan Fedorov’s fi rst publish- ning of XVII century until 1917). ing house (1581); Lithuanian Reg- Th e most important part of collec- ulation Statut’s fi rst edition (1588); tion belongs to the Getman period “Grammar” by Meletyi Smotryckyi (from the second half of XVII until (1648); “Kyiv-Pecherskyi Pateryk” XVIII century). (XVI cent); “Pawma Berinda’s Th e oldest documentary ma- dictionary” (beg. XVII century); terials in our Archives are the “Grygorii Grabyanka’s Chronicle” manuscript of Gospel in Greek (lists from 1773); “Serpent Israel’s” dated back to the XIII century, and (by Grygorii Skovoroda). parchment charter dated back to Archival funds consist of valuable 1 369 written by Russian warden cartographical and land-surveying Otto from Pilche. (geodesic) documents from the Th e earliest documents gathered XVII till the XX century. Among in the Collection of Kyiv Archeo- others one can pinpoint the most graphical Commission and they ancient commemoration of Ukrai- comprise miscellaneous charters nian cartography – Borispil volost dated to the XIV and XV centu- border map (30s of the XVII cen- ries. Th ere are privileges of Lithu- tury); Kyiv map (1695) composed anian princes and Polish kings; by M. Ushakov; documents of Kyiv universal decrees of Ukrainian engineering crew etc. ; Russian tsars deeds etc. Charter dates from Th ese documents were written in 1369 written by 17 languages. Th e Collection also Russian warden preserves 765 original seals (hav- Otto from Pilche ing diff erent degree of retention), and more then 30 crests. Th e archival collections of old- printings and manuscripts contain 2525 unique European and native edi- Archives of Ukraine

Gospel. specifi c region, descrip- XIII century tion of castles, towns and fortifying. Th is collection is a priceless resource for studying the history of Ukraine, also because of information about Bo- hdan Khmelnytskyi the Liberation War, Haidam- ack tendencies, and rural uprisings. Th e unique source for studying Ukrainian his- Among the unique archival tory is the fund of Kosh of sources we preserve Naprestolnyi New Zaporizka Sich the documents Gospel, Lviv edition (1636); Mag- of which highlight the last period of deburg privileges of Kyiv (cop- Cossacks existence. ies 1544–1659); Geographical and Information of managerial-terri- topographical describing of Kyiv torial system and economical de- namisnytsvo (1781; 1785; 1787); velopment of Left -Bank and Slobid- colored crests portrayal of Kyiv, ska Ukraine from the XVII–XVIII Chernigiv and Novgorod-Siversk centuries could be found in the namisnystvo. documents of the General Military Th e most valuable in the Offi ce, the Malorosiyskyi First and CSHAUK documentary collection Second Boards, the General De- are the early court records from scription of Left -Bank Ukraine, the XVI – XVIII centuries of the courts Military Treasures Offi ce, the Gen- and estate institutions of the Right- eral Military Court, regiment courts Bank Ukraine – city, district and and offi ces. confederate courts, magistrates and Military history of Ukraine is city governments. Th ese fi les are di- represented by the documents of verse in content and counting about the General Military ’s 1 million documents from the be- Chancellery; the Regiment and ginning of the XVI century till the Gubernskyi chancelleries. Here are 60s of XVIII century. Th e acts were preserved the information about written in Old-Ukrainian, Polish, military state, guarding of board, and . Th ey concern sales, leas- construction of protective erections es, tenancy, transfer or division of in Ukraine for the period from the property, contracts about mortgage XVII till XVIII century. and family, the life of citizens, notes Records of namicnyctvo’s direc- on the laws of Kyiv and Volyn re- tions of Bratclav, , Kyiv, 26 gions, information on taxes paid and Katerynoslav, Novgorod-Siversk, lists of people and their duties in the Podil, Kharkiv, Chernigiv region Central State Archives

Map of Ukraine Terra Cossacorum, from Atlas of Europe. 1744

cover the history of Ukraine in the from the XIV to the XX centuries second half of the XVIII century. are personal and family funds of Information about church-clois- magnates and nobilities from Right- tral landownership; spiritual edu- Bank Ukraine, such as: Branickyi, cation; land disputes; church and Ganskyi, Zamoiskyi, Kortnyak, cloisters construction; monastic Lyubomirskyi, Potockyi, Radzyvil, and church property descriptions Sapeg, Tarnavskyi, and great Ukrai- are preserved in the funds of Kyiv nian landowners Galagan, Skaro- and Pereyaslav-Borispil consisto- padskyi, Sulym, Tereschenko, ries, Kyivo-Pechersk , Kyiv Khanenko etc. St. Sophia cathedral and many oth- Th e main informative resource of er monasteries and cloisters. the CSHAUK was formed by the Th ese funds also preserve the documents of the Russian Empire documents of enormous interest local organizations and institutions for genealogical researches: metri- from the XIX till the beginning of cal books of various confessions, the XX century. Records of Kyiv, and churches registers for towns Podil, Volyn Governor-General and villages of Kyiv guberniya. Offi ce, state ownership chambers, Unique amount for studying lustration commissions preserve economical, political, social, edu- documents about trade and in- cational, cultural and religious re- dustry development, public-social lationships of Ukraine and neigh- tendencies, preparation and adop- 27 boring countries for the period tion the Reform of 1861 in Ukraine, Archives of Ukraine

Publications of the documents of the Kosh of New Zaporizhzhya Sich

Gospel – present of neutralization of Polish uprisings in Petro Mogyla 1830–1831, 1863–1864, and others. to Spas-na- Records of police and gendarmer- Berestove ie institutions, security boards, and Church court and prosecutor section high- light the history of political parties and organizations, revolutionary uprisings. Kyiv Censor Committee, Kyiv Detached Censorship Offi ce, Kyiv Provisional Committee in print af- fairs are indicating ban in usage and dissemination of Ukrainian Jubilee publication language in published works of on history of T. Schevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, the Central I. Franko, M. Gogol etc. State Historical Th e records of Kyiv and Kharkiv Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv educational regional administra- tions, Kyiv theological seminary, Kyiv lyceum, Kremenetsk lyceum describe the educational and cul- tural development problems. Th e funds of scientifi c, cultural- educational societies and organiza- tions preserve valuable information 28 for studying history of science and culture in Ukraine. Central State Archives

The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv

Historical Background Th e Archives was created in No- vember, 1939 and was known as the Central Archives of Old Deeds in Lviv. Th ey consolidated three major archives that had existed in Lviv up until World War II, – the Archives of Old Deeds of the City of Lviv, the Zemsstvo Archives (Land Archives), and the State Archives, as well as a number of well-known corporate and private collections. At fi rst, the Central Archives of Old Deeds was considered an archi- val branch of the UNKVS UkSSR of Lviv Region. On June, 24, 1941 the Archives was reorganized into the

Address: 3a, Soborna Square, branch of the Central State Historical Lviv, 79008 Archives of the UkSSR (the Decree Tel.: +380 (322) 235-45-08 to this eff ect was passed on Decem- Fax: +380 (322) 235-45-08 E-mail: [email protected] ber, 1, 1943); however, this resolution Web: tsdial.archives.gov.ua was not carried out due to the out- break of the War. During the Ger- Transport: tram No 1, 9, (to stop “Square Rynok”), man occupation of 1941–1944, the No 3 activity of the Archives was renewed (to stop “Halytskyi Bazar”) under the name the Archives of the

Reading Tu–F 9am – 8pm, City of Lviv, reporting to the Archival room M–Sa 9am – 4pm Administration of the General-Gov- hours ernor in Krakiw. From 1944 to 1945, of operation: the Archives existed as the Depart- Director: Diana Pelts ment of Old Deeds under the Lviv Regional State Archives; aft er 1946, it was again a branch of the Central State Historical Archives UkSSR in Lviv. As a result of the division of docu- ments between the CSHA branch 29 and the Lviv Regional State Archives Archives of Ukraine

methodology center for all archives in Genealogical table of the the Region. Tarnovskyi By the Ordinance of the Cabi- family. net of Ministers of Ukraine No 415, Fragment. July, 21, 1992, and the Decree No 35 XVII century of the Main Archival Administration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine July, 31, 1992, the name of the Ar- chives was changed to the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv (CSHA of Ukraine in Lviv). Total Volume of Funds 764 funds, 1 114 997 fi les (13 382 in 1947–1950, collections relating to l. m.) from (1110–1137, 1233–1990). Austrian and Polish institutions and Description of Archival organizations in Galicia and activities Holdings which occurred outside the borders Th e Archives preserves docu- of the Lviv Voevodstvo (excluding ments from various historical ep- documents from the era of feudalism) ochs: the -Volynian State were absorbed into the CSHA. (Galician-Volynian State) (XIII–XIV In 1958 the Archives was reorga- centuries), the Grand Duchy of the nized into the CSHA UkSSR in Lviv Lithuanian and Polish-Lithuanian reporting to the Main Archival Ad- Commonwealth (XIV–XVIII centu- ministration of the Council of Min- ries), the Austrian and Austro-Hun- isters of the UkSSR. At the beginning garian Monarchies (1772–1918), the of the 1960s, initiated by academician West-Ukrainian People’s Republic I. Krypyakevych, the Archives be- (1918–1919), the Ukrainian People’s came the basis of research for special- Republic (1917–1921), the interwar ized historical disciplines; in them Polish period (1919–1939), the war- there were created departments of ar- time periods of the Soviet rule (1939– chival study – archeography, archae- 1941) and the German occupation ology, diplomacy, paleography, fi li- (1941–1944), the Soviet period aft er greeology, heraldry and sphragistics. 1944, and the period of Ukrainian In- Th e Archives became research and dependence aft er 1991.

The birch bark document XII century

30 Central State Archives

The confirmative Th e oldest documents of the Ar- parchment of chives date back to 1233 and are lo- Lviv archibishop cated in the collection of parchment Ivan Tarnavskyi documents (fund 131), which con- about Lviv citizens’ donative tains 1 113 documents. Unique with- documents for the in this collection is the benefit of cemetery document of 1596. In 1994, three chapel near Lviv documents written on birch bark in Cathedral. 1669 1110–1137, found during excavations in the medieval town of Zvenygorod, were added to this collection. Th e oldest group of documents from the periods of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithua- nian Commonwealth consists of doc- uments of the local self-government bodies – magistrate and civic govern- ments – 67 funds. Th e oldest and larg- The charter of the est fund is from the Lviv Magistrate Emperor Joseph II (fund 52). It includes the Raietsko- on founding Lviv Lavnycha (Council-Bench) book University (1382–1389) and the book of income and expenditures of the City (1404– 1414). Valuable historical sources are the chronicles of J. Alembeck, S. Ku- shevych, V. Zymorovych, Ia. T. Iuze- fovych, mercantile books and “news” (newspapers) from the XVII–XVII The parchment of Lviv centuries. Th e collection of letters lands, (fund 132) contains the autographs povit, about of Hetmans of Ukraine Bohdan and confederation Yuri Khmelnytskyi, I. Vyhovskyi, of their rights and privileges defence. P. Teteria, Germanic Emperor, Turk- 1464 ish Sultan, Polish and Swedish kings, and other foreign dignitaries. Exceptionally valuable is the large collection of books (over 6,5 thou- sand) chronicling the Acts (Records) of the hrodski (castle), zemstvo (land), pidkomorski (chamberlain), and sta- rostynski () courts of East Gali- cia during the XV–XVIII centuries. 3131 Th e oldest of them are the books of Archives of Ukraine

Archival depository plete collection of documents of of old Ukrainian social organizations of the deeds XVI–XVIII centuries. Th e Archives of the Fraternity (Brotherhood) con- stitute detailed information about the history of the Orthodox church from 1378, about the introduction of unions and the Gregorian calendar as well as its polemic struggle, about the the Sanok Zemstvo Court (Sanok’s relations between the Orthodoxies Land Court) (1423). Th ey contain: and the Arians and the Lithuania and charters, revisions, and inventories of Poland Protestants in the battle against estates; protestations of the Orthodox the encroachment of Catholicism. and Greek-Catholic metropolitans, Th ere are numerous old docu- archbishops, and fraternities (broth- ments from church history in the erhood); documents about the rise funds of institutions of diff erent reli- of Cossacks, insurgents of I. Mukha, gious confessions: consistories, ordi- S. Nalyvaiko, Khmelnytskyi Upris- nariates, chapters, monasteries, and ing, the liberation movement of the spiritual educational institutions. Opryshky, and the Haidamaky Re- Among the pastoral letters and ser- bellions; and documents about the mons are letters written by leaders of szlachta (heraldic nobility) confed- the Ukrainian Greek-, eracies, about wars, trade, commerce, including those of A. Anhelovych, agriculture, and everyday life of the S. Lytvynovych, H. Iakhymovych, population during the A. Sheptytskyi and J. Slipyi. and the Modern Era. Th e funds of the Roman-Catholic, Th e unique fund of the Lvivske Orthodox, Armenian, Jewish, and Uspenske (Stavropihijske) Frater- Evangelical religious institutions off er nity (Lviv Stauropegial Brotherhood) an abundance of information about (fund 129) is the only virtually com- the lives of national and religious minorities. Th e oldest Archival documents of this col- depository of old lection (Roman-Cath- deeds olic Chapter in Lviv, fund 197) date back to 1417. Th e largest group of funds in the Archives is comprised of col- lections of documents from the period of the 32 Austrian and Austro- Hungarian Empires Central State Archives

(1772–1918). Th e most important of Archival them is the fund of the Galician vice- depository gerency (Viceroy’s) (fund 146) which of old deeds numbers over 200 thousand fi les from 1772–1921. Irreplaceable sources for the study of economic and historical geogra- phy, agriculture, the composition and situation of the population, and to- ponymy are the resources of the fi rst territorial cadastres of Galicia – so called Iosyfi nsky (fund 19) and Frant- syskansky (fund 20) Certifi cates from 1788 and 1820. Valuable supplements to these are cadastral maps and prop- erty inventory documents from the population settlements of the regional land tax commission (fund 186). In the funds of the agriculture-economic and fi nancial institutions, such as the State Account (fund 187), the Region- Lviv (fund 156), the State Prosecut- al Financial Directorate (fund 160), ing Magistracy in Lviv (fund 458), the Financial Chamber (fund 161), the Prosecuting Magistracies Ap- the Galician Financial Prosecuting peal Court in Lviv (fund 205), the Magistracy (fund 159), the Kraiova Lviv Division of General Prosecuting Tabulia (fund 166) and others are in- Magistracies of Poland in Lviv (fund ventories of cities, villages, and estates, 158). Revolutionary events in Gali- salterns, land property books about cia between the years 1848–1851 are settlements, property inventories of revealed in the unique collections churches, and monasteries, as well of documents from the Main Ruska as other historical information about Rada (Supreme Ruthenian Council) them. in Lviv (fund 180). Documents about A massive amount of information the period of liberation struggles in about the social-political processes Ukraine are found in the collection of and national-liberation and revolu- documents concerning the activities tionary movements from the end of of the governments and armies of the XVIII to the beginning of XX century UPR and the WUPR (fund 581), in is found in the documents of the re- the fund of the Ukrainian Sich Rebel sources judicial institutes: the Szlachta Legion (fund 353), in the stanitsas of (Nobility) Court in Lviv (fund 149), interned armies of the UPR in Lancut the High Regional Court in Lviv (fund 753) and Kalush (fund 673), (fund 150), the Regional Court in and in personal funds of state, politi- 33 Lviv (fund 152), the Appeal Court in cal, and army workers of Ukraine. Archives of Ukraine

A large amount of information and “Ukrainska Besida” (fund is documented in numerous funds 514). Th ere are many funds in the of cultural-educational institu- Archives about Ukrainian, Pol- tions, organizations, and associa- ish, Jewish, Armenian, and Ger- tions of various historical periods: man associations and organiza- the Taras Shevchenko Scientifi c tions – including women, student, Society (fund 309), the “Pros- and cultural-recreational associa- vita” society (fund 348), “Ridna tions – which attest to the long his- Shkola” (fund 206), “Galician- tory of coexistence among various Ruthenian Matytsia” (fund 148), national in Galicia.

Archival premises in Bernandyn Monastery

34 Central State Archives

The Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine named after G. Pshenychnyi

Historical Background For the fi rst time the issue of cine- photo documents preservation was raised in Ukraine early in the 1930s. Inclusion of Ukrainian cine and photo documents of history-mak- ing value into the National Archival Fund as well as creation of the All- Ukrainian Central Photo Archives in Kyiv was provided by the Regu- lations “On the Unifi ed State Ar- chival Fund of the Ukrainian SSR” (1930) and the Regulations “On Central Department for Archives, Local Archival Bodies and Institu- tions under the Department for Archives and Local Bodies” (1932).

Address: 24, Solomianska Str., Within the pre-war period the Kyiv, 03110 Archives was located on the terri- Tel.: +380 (44) 275-37-77 tory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Mu- E-mail: tsdkff [email protected] Web: tsdkff a.archives.gov.ua seum area, Building 26) occupying some rooms, photo documents de- Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 pository and a photo laboratory. (to stop “Andryi Golovko Str.”) Originally the Archives was formed through acquisition of Reading M–F 9am–5pm photo documents. Th e fi rst cine room hours of operation: documents were registered in 1940. By January, 1, 1941 105 330 photo Director: Nina Topishko negatives, 9 655 photo positives and 50 430 m of fi lm were reported to be put under archival control. When the War between the and the USSR broke out archival records were not evacu- ated. Th e majority of photo docu- ments were transferred to the Pro- paganda Department (Prorizna 3535 Str., 17) under the Headquarters of Archives of Ukraine

was named aft er G. Psh- Phono- documents enychnyi. of the Archives. At all the CSCPPA de- 2012 velopment stages forma- tion of archival docu- ments base was one of the priorities. In 1943 the Scientifi c Library of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR passed the CSCPPA photo documents of Anti- A. Rozenberg by the Main Working religious Museum as well Group in Ukraine; some photo doc- as of the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Th e- uments (241 units) were passed over atre Archives. In 1946–1947 50 000 to the Museum-Archives of Transi- photo documents were returned to tion Period at the Kyiv City Admin- the CSCPPA from Dresden (Ger- istration. Later a certain amount of many) and 17 190 photo documents photo documents remaining at the from (Austria). In 1997 the Archives repository was wrecked Federal Archives of Germany (Ko- as a consequence of the explosions blenz) passed the CSCPPA 3 278 at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. In Septem- copies of photo positives removed ber – October, 1943, archival docu- from Ukraine. ments were removed out of Ukraine. Shelving with cine documents Aft er liberation of Kyiv, according in one of the to the Order of the People’s Comis- boxes of cine sariat of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrai- repository of the nian SSR from December, 1, 1943 Archives. 2012 No 021, the Central State Archives of PhotoPhonoCine Documents of Ukrainian SSR was reorganized. G. Pshenychnyi was appointed the Director; he headed the Archives for 35 years. In 1953–1992 it be- came the Central State Archives of CinePhotoPhono Documents of the Ukrainian SSR. Since July, 1992 it is the Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine (the CSCPPA of Ukraine). In accordance with the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers 3636 of Ukraine from December 28, 1998 No 2088 the CSCPPA of Ukraine Central State Archives

During the post-war period re- gional cine distribution depart- ments passed the CSCPPA German and Rumanian propagandistic doc- umentaries and newsreels; in 1948 the CSCPPA received 126 work- ing copies of “Radianska Ukraina” newsreel and 1938–1941 Ukrki- nochronica documentaries from the USSR Central State Archives of CinePhotoPhono Documents (CSACPPD). In 1956 the CSACPPD of the USSR passed to the CSCPPA mianska Str., 24, on January, 1, 1975. Scientific Worker of Ukraine a number of the All- New archives premises (about 3265 of the Department Ukrainian Photo Cine Department sq. m) cover the depositories of cine, of Documents and Soyuzkinochronica 1923–1936 photo and phono documents. Information Use L. Petrenko (the newsreels and fi lms. Th e above doc- Total Volume of Funds third) demonstrates uments were the core of the source Th e CSCPPA funds contain about cine document on base for the pre-war archives which 470 000 units of cine, photo and film editing table. in the course of time were supple- phono documents displaying the na- 2012 mented with the copies of Ukrai- tional and world historic events from nian episodes of Soyuzkinochronica the mid – XX century up to date. newsreels. Description of Archival Holdings Th e gradual accumulation of cine More than 12 500 units of cine doc- documents required their storage uments (1896–1999), among them: and preservation issues to be solved. silent and sound documentaries, In view of it a new three-storey build- newsreels, cine and TV episodes. Th e ing was put into operation in Solo- earliest cine documents are presented by fragmen- Head of the tary episodes Information on crowning Technologies of Nicolas II Department (1896), “Th e L. Golenko (from the left) consulting 200th Anniver- Leading Scientific sary of Poltava Worker of the Battle” (1900), Department “Flights of Avi- of Documents Information Use ator Utochkin T. Rzhondkovska in Kishinev” concerning computer (1911), “Fu- program for catalogs neral of design. 2012 A. Tereshchen- 3737 ko” (1912). Archives of Ukraine

Building of the the memory of Stalin Central State CinePhotoPhono repressions victims, Archives tragic fate of Ukraini- of Ukraine an intelligentsia, 1986 named after Chornobyl disaster etc. G. Pshenychnyi. 2012 Th e cine documents of independent Ukraine refl ect the latest his- tory of the State. Th e CSCPPA funds also contain about 400 000 units of photo documents (1853–2004). Th e Invaluable cine chronicles of Ukrai- earliest of them are: the copies of T. nian life of 1920s – 1930s are the All- Shevchenko’s photo portraits, the Ukrainian Photo Cine Department events of Sevastopol defence dur- and Ukrkinochronica newsreels, ing 1853–1856 the , documentaries of Kyiv Feature Films the photo album of Kyiv pictures Studio, some Romanian and Czech (the second half of XIX century), the fi lms and episodes on the Transcar- 1896 original glass negative with the pathian Ukraine as a part of pre-war image of a blast furnace construc- Czechoslovakia. World War II cine tion at “Union” metallurgical plant chronicles are presented, fi rst and in Makiyivka. foremost, by the so-called “chron- Leading Restorer icles materials”, that is, shooting of of film materials Ukrainian cameramen; “Radian- of the sector of storing and stock- ska Ukraina” newsreels (1943 – May, taking of video 1945); a number of fi lms and the so- documents called “war trophies” newsreels. V. Kubrak during Th e dominant subject of the fi rst digitization of cine documents. 2012 postwar decade was reconstruction and further development of the na- tional economy, science and culture. Th e cine documents, such as nu- merous episodes and fi lms, high- lighted all stages of the Soviet society development, such as destaliniza- tion period, the so-called “thaw”, the mid – 1980s “glasnost and per- estroika” period, “blank spots” of the 38 Soviet history. A number of Ukrai- nian documentaries are devoted to Central State Archives

Th e photo documents refl ect the 1917–1921 liberation movement in Ukraine, setting the Soviet power, creation of the USSR, activities of public authorities, development of Ukrainian science and culture. More than 6 000 of photo documents highlight the events of World War II. Most of the photo documents depict Ukrainian history during the previous 50 years. Contemporary Ukraine is presented by the photo documents on the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, the fi rst Leading Scientific Presidential elections, inauguration During the 1970s – 1980s the Worker of the of L. Kravchuk, the fi rst President of CSCPPA records fund was fi lled up Department of Ukraine, as well as political, public with new entries on a regular basis, Documents Safety Securing and and economic life of the indepen- mostly with “Melodiya” records. Of Stocktaking dent country. special value are the recordings of V. Stadnyk during About 59 000 units of phono doc- Ukrainian opera coryphees I. Pator- digitization of uments (1900–2003) are preserved zhynskyi, V. Lytvynenko-Volgemut, photo documents. at the CSCPPA of Ukraine. Small I. Kozlovskyi, Z. Haidai, M. Hryshko 2012 but unique collection of records and others. Th e majority of phono produced by “Zonophone Record” documents are magnetic recordings (“Grammophone Joint- Stock Com- of documentary character. pany, Riga”), “Stella Record”, “Beka Since 1998 the CSCPPA of Ukraine Record” and “Favourite Record” has been acquiring video documents; companies (Germany) in 1900– their number amounting to 800 units 1914 is of immeasurable value. (1994–2005). Th e very fi rst entries were as follows: Director of the “Visti Tyzhnia”, Archives “Vikna”, “Pis- N. Topishko (from the left) and liamova” TV- Director of the programmes. State Film Fund of Like any other Azerbaijan signing non-traditional the Agreement on Cooperation in the data media, the Sphere of Cine video docu- Archival Affairs. ments refl ect 2010 many-sided so- cial, economic and cultural life 3939 of Ukraine. Archives of Ukraine

The Central State Scientific-Technical Archives of Ukraine

Historical Background Interest in centralized preserv- ing of historically significant scientific and technical publi- cations (STP) goes back to the 1960s. Decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, from May, 21, 1964 No 431 “On cen- tralized preserving of scientific- technical publications and orga- nizing of their wide use” became a stimulus to solve this problem. The decision has charged the ministers and government de- partments to launch activities in delivering the scientific and technical publications devel-

Address: 4, Universitetskaya Str., oped by scientific-research, de- Kharkiv, 61003 sign and engineering organiza- Tel.: +380 (57) 731-25-67 tions for state preserving. Fax: +380 (57) 731-34-34 E-mail: [email protected] The Central State Archives of Web: archive.gov.ua Scientific-Technical Publica- tions which shows historical Transport: Metro (to stations stages in development of sci- “Radyanska”, ence, engineering and technol- “Istorychnyi musei” ) ogy in Ukraine have been es-

Reading M–Th 8am – 5pm; tablished in conformity with room F 8am – 3.45pm; the decision of the Council of hours of operation: Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR,

Director: Evgen Semenov from December, 25, 1969 No 688. According to the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, from July, 21, 1992 No 415 and by the Order No 35 of the Main Archival Administra- tion of the Cabinet of Ministers 4040 of Ukraine, from July, 31, 1992 the Archives name was changed Central State Archives for the Central State Scientific- plants of heat power industry: Technical Archives of Ukraine Zaporizhzhya, Kurachiv, My- (the CSSTA of Ukraine). roniv, Predniprivya, Slovyansk Total Volume of Funds state district thermoelectric 245 funds, 572 225 units pre- plants. Nuclear power industry served., is represented in the Archives 1 002 sets of scientific-techni- funds by the part of the proj- cal publications (2 432 linear me- ects of Kursk, Novovoronizh and ters) from the years 1889–2010. nuclear power Description of Archival plants. Holdings Issues of water resources us- Scientific-technical publica- age in Ukraine and environment tions that provide a retrospec- protection are covered by the tive review in history of devel- Archives documents. Among the opment of science, engineering most interesting documents are and technology in Ukraine give as follows: projects of Institute the contemporary researcher-ex- “Ukrdiproprojekt” named after pert a chance for fair historical S. Dyuk such as “Problem of the assessment of standard level in great ” (1934–1971), wa- technical development of indus- ter supply and sewerage systems try in Ukraine. Most designs and in Donbas and Kharkiv rivers engineering development pre- regulation etc. served in the Archives have been awarded state and international Fund repository prizes, diplomas and medals. of the CSSTA Capital construction projects of Ukraine of energy-power complex and heavy industry enterprises take a significant place among branch- es of industry which documents are preserved in the Archives. Design documents of Dnipro hydroelectric power plant con- struction, though not numerous, have attracted considerable in- terest. Subsequent development of water resources in Ukraine is represented by projects of Kakhovka, Kremenchug, and other hydroelectric power plants. The Archives preserves the 41 documents of the following vast Archives of Ukraine

The archives of scientific-tech- has an interesting technical con- nical publications (STP) rather ception; an integrated design in fully cover a matter of coal in- dust removal de-aeration of coal dustry recovery. mines has got three prizes at the The project in recovery of the All-Union competitions. coal-mine named after Gorkyi in Design documentation of the Donbas in post-war years which main types of steam locomo- is one of the oldest in Ukraine tives and diesel locomotives has (1896) as well as the project of been submitted to the CSSTA of the biggest mine “Velykomos- Ukraine by ’s diesel loco- tivska” in western coal basin may motives manufacturing factory serve as an example. Among coal which can form a true historical cutter-loaders we may draw at- notion of steam and diesel loco- tention to the coal-miner “Don- motive manufacturing industry bas” which was the most perfect in Ukraine. among all world known coal The following design publi- cutter-loaders of this type at that cations demonstrate develop- time. ment of automobile transport Mining equipment documents in Ukraine. Lviv’s (LAZ-695), in the Soviet period hold the (LAZ-697), Kremenchug’s great interest: the first soviet (KRAZ-257), (KRAZ-214), dewatering pumps (1933–1941) Zaporizhzhya’s “Kommunar” which were as good as the best (ZAZ-956) automobile factories. samples of these items abroad; Important traffic routes cross the first home-produced cen- Ukraine. Some design require- trifugal mine fans (1929–1937) ments and specifications are which manufacture gave a preserved in the Archives chance to give up import. A proj- (Kharkiv-Kyiv, Kharkiv-Rostov, ect of man-riding cage exhibited 1944–1945). Among the docu- in the Brussels World Fair (1958) ments, in addition to the road layouts, there are Building facade geodetic explora- of the CSSTA tion and maps of of Ukraine deposits of local construction ma- terials. Among the doc- uments showing development of water transport we must draw at- 4242 tention to the de- sign of Odesa sea Central State Archives port buildings, ship- Fund repository repairing and ship-building fac- of security tories, Mariupol seaport, Odesa fund sea port, ferry and river passenger terminal in Kyiv. Collection of design sets of mo- tor-vessels, barges (1936–1954) is recognized by the experts as worthy of attention. Powder metallurgy is repre- The start of development of sented by the design documents a new branch of economy of of the first specialized powder Ukraine – pipeline transport – is metallurgical work in Brovary, connected with the construction Ukraine. The Archives has docu- of -Kyiv cross-country ments of the first non-ferrous gas pipeline (1945). Since that metallurgical plant – Zaporizh- time, Ukrainian experts have zhya integrated titanium – mag- developed a lot of gas pipeline nesium works (1933). designs: Center Asia-Center; One of the most important in- Urengoi- Pomary-Uzhgorod, dustry in Ukraine – tractor in- Orenburg-West border and etc. dustry – is fully represented by These documents are important the Archives documents which both from the view-point of en- in addition to production of gineering history and practical machinery is specialized in the implementation. manufacture of the components: Designs of petroleum and pe- unified diesel engines (for trac- troleum product pipelines and tors and self-propelled grain oil handling terminals developed harvester (combine); products by the State Petroleum Pipeline of Ukraine assembly factories Design Institute have been also (units, parts of hydraulic system given for state preservation for tractors and combines) and among which is the design of the like. Since Kharkiv tractor “Druzhba” petroleum pipeline plant came into service, the evo- crossing the whole territory of lution of tractor engineering in- . Ferrous metal- dustry practically got under way. lurgical works and basic (heavy) Equipment engineering plants lie at the ba- for secure sis of Ukraine economy. The copy Archives preserves 23 designs making of metallurgical works, among them the giant factories of the national metallurgy industry like “Zaporizhstal”, “Kryvorizhstal” 4343 and “Azovstal”. Archives of Ukraine

Scheme of designed branch railway -

Sketch of “Souzdorproject” institute in- iconostasis for clude design drawings of bridges, Kaplunivska church bridgeworks, bridge approaches in Kharkiv and automobile road bridges. Significant part of documents takes the designs of high-water bridges across the Dnipro River. The scheme for main city road reconstruction and housing con- struction of the main road in the capital of Ukraine was developed by architect body of “Kyivpro- ject” institute. The scheme for Khreshchatyc road reconstruc- tion contains more than ten thousand units of keeping. The Valuable documents in the field Archives also preserves general of civil engineering and architec- layouts of Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, ture in Ukraine are concentrated Lviv and other cities. Unique in the Archives. From pre-war plans of Kharkiv City dated 1906, period a set of documents of 1909, 1910 years are preserved in “Ukrtsyvilprojectbud” institute the Archives. They are perfect- (1928–1933) is noteworthy. ly made and have bright color 44 Scientific and technical pub- drawings of historical city trade lications of the Kyiv branch of center, Kharkiv planning scheme Central State Archives with neighboring villages, resto- Presentation of ration design of Archangel Mi- documentary and chel Cathedral. art exhibition “Khreschatyk – The fund of private origin from the which belonged to O. Beketov, Reconstruction academician of St. Peterburg Project to the Academy of Arts, Ukrainian So- Present”. Kharkiv. August, 2011 viet architect, Professor, member of the USSR Academy of Archi- The documents are used by the tecture occupies a prominent Archives in media (articles, ra- place in the Archives. Other dio and television), in thematic funds of private origin attract exhibitions, during lectures for considerable interest: O. Zavarov, schoolchildren and students, state prize-winner of Ukraine, guide tours, on academic confer- People’s Architect; B. Ostacshen- ences and other arrangements. ko- Kudryavtzev, Doctor of Sci- Workshop of ence (Physics and Mathematics), professional development for astrometrist and cartographer; specialists of state Y. Krantzfeld, designer, inven- archives of the tor and production-rationalizer regions of Ukraine. in the field of power-plant con- September, 2011 struction; I. Tryshevskyi, scien- tist in the field of rolling pro- duction; Y. Prokudin, one of the The CSSTA of Ukraine at- distinguished Ukrainian bota- tached to international relations: nist, professor of Kharkiv State participates in international University and others. conferences and round tables, Geography of industrial, en- has Agreements on Cooperation gineering and architectural with the Belarusian State Ar- projects saved in the CSSTA chives of Scientific and Techni- of Ukraine is not limited to cal Documentation (the Repub- Ukraine, including 26 coun- lic of Belarus) and the Russian tries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, State Archives of Scientific and Egypt, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Technical Documentation (the Moldova, Russia, Hungary, Uz- Russian Federation). bekistan etc. Equipment The Archives documentary in- for secure formation is widely used to de- copy fend human rights, public social making needs and requirements as well as to realize reconstruction, re- pair, restoration and renovation 45 works etc. Archives of Ukraine

The Central State Archives-Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e Central State Archives- Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine (hereinaft er – the CSAMLA of the Ukrainian SSR) was founded on May, 4, 1966 by the Decree No 357 adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Ukrai- nian SSR on proposal by the Archi- val Division under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and creative unions of the republic. Th e Archives was opened on August, 1, 1967. Th e CSAMLA of Ukraine is lo- cated on the premises of former Sofi a seminary – a historical and

Address: 22-a, Volodymyrska Str., cultural monument dating back Kyiv, 01034 to the second half of XVIII cen- Tel.: +380 (44) 278-44-81 tury (1763–1767) on the territory E-mail:archiv–[email protected] Web: csam.archives.gov.ua of the National Conservancy Sofi a Kyivska. Transport: metro In village Pluty located in (to station “Golden Gate”); trolleybus No16, 18 Obukhiv District of Kyiv Region, (to stop “Sofi a Square” ) a structural unit of the CSAMLA of Ukraine – Literary and Artis- Reading M–F 10am – 5pm room hours tic Pluty – is functioning. Archi- of operation: val documents, memorial objects, and the library of playwright Director: Olena Kulchyi O. Korniychuk and his wife – writer V. Vasylevska, are preserved and exhibited here. Th e current name – the Central State Archives-Museum of Lit- erature and Arts of Ukraine (the CSAMLA of Ukraine) was assigned 46 to the Archives by the Decree No 415 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Central State Archives

the post-war period are the docu- Anatol Petrytskyi, ments of the Committee of Taras Costume design Shevchenko National Awards of for “Tsar Igor” for Ukraine; of the creative unions of the production of Aleksander architects, journalists, cinema mak- Borodin’s opera ers, compositors, writers, artists, ac- tors etc. of Ukraine; of theaters, fi lm studios, publishing houses etc. Th e Archives-Museum preserves 17 collections: materials of the Ukrainian necropolis; folk songs dating back to years 1897–1919 col- lected by G. Yachnitskyi; documents of prominent Ukrainian theater and cinema actors; musical arts; fi ne arts objects from Ukrainian art ex- Ukraine July, 21, 1992 and the De- hibitions. Collection of book-plates cree No 35 of the Main Archival collected by Oleksiyiv – 5146 stock Administration under the Cabinet units collected over period 1868– of Ministers of Ukraine from July, 1985, works by approximately 500 31, 1992. artists. Unique collection of book Total Volume of Funds graphics, which, among other, con- 1 394 funds, 301 943 stock units col- tains covers of the fi rst Ukrainian lected over period XVIII century – literary and arts magazines, alma- 2007. 18 875 stock units of photo nacs, and collections. Collection of documents collected between 1902 documents of people of literature and 2007. 20 023 stock units of mu- and art created in 1992 consists of seum objects. the documents provided by archives Description of Archival Holdings of such institutions and agencies as Th e Archives-Museum contains Anatol Petrytskyi, funds of government institutions, Costume design creative unions and public organi- for the ballet production, directed zations, including funds of institu- by Mikhail Mordkin tions and companies that were in operation in the XIX and in the be- ginning of the XX centuries. Docu- ments containing information on the State and development of the in 1920s and end of 1930s are preserved here. Most of the funds of government institutions, creative unions and 47 public organizations belonging to Archives of Ukraine

Memorial room of the Ukrainian the Prosecutor’s Offi ce, courts, composer Platon and bodies of the KGB of USSR, Maiboroda mainly in copies. Until 2001, the Archives-Museum preserves a col- lection entitled “Materials of the West-European People of Litera- ture and Arts of XVI–XIX centu- ries” (fund 441, 5 154 stock units). In 2001 according to the Decree No 1202 from September, 18 2001 Memorial room of the Ukrainian of the Cabinet of Ministers “On writer and film withdrawal of documents from director Olexandr the National Archival Funds and Dovzhenko transfer thereof to the Govern- ment of the Federal Republic of Germany”, 5 119 units from this collection were returned to the State Library in Berlin. Th e CSAMLA of Ukraine is the biggest treasury in Ukraine con- Memorial room of the Ukrainian taining literary and arts funds of writer Yurii personal origin. Th ese are funds Smolych of writers, literary critics, transla- tors, journalists, fi ne art experts, theater historians, opera singers and crooners, theater and cinema actors, circus actors, stage direc- tors, artists, architects, sculptors, composers, musicians-perform- ers, folklorists and other people of literature and arts.

Former St. Sofia’s religious school

4848 Central State Archives

Th e Archives-Museum is par- Ivan Nechui- ticularly proud of the autographs Levytsky. “Khmary” to Taras Shevchenko’s poems (“The Clîuds”). 1919 “Th ought” (“Duma”), “Dream” (“Son”) and some other. Th e time period before the Revolution is rep- resented by the documents of family archives of architects V. and O. Be- retti; artists I. Yizhakevych, F. Kra- sytskyi, G. Diadchenko; composers K. Stetsenko, M. Tutkovskyi; the high priests of the Ukrainian theater M. Zankovetska, M. , S. Tobilevych and others. Among the archival collections of later periods, the fund of a poet and academician P. Tychyna, is the most complete one both by scope and people of literature and arts be- content. Th e documents of writers longing to the M. Bazhan, M. Rylskyi, V. Sosiura, in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the P. Voronko, I. Senchenko are also of USA, Germany and other countries great interest. of the world: I. Bagrianyi, V. Vovk, Th e CSAMLA of Ukraine also M. Hai, O. Hai-Holovko, I. Koshe- preserves documents of personal livets, L. Morozova, D. Nytchenko, funds of Ukrainian writers that were B. Podolianko, R. Rakhmanny, Yar persecuted for political reasons: , G. Cherin etc. V. Bobrynskyi, M. Drai-Khmara, Th e CSAMLA of Ukraine is dif- M. Zerov, G. Kosynka, Ye. Pluzhnyk ferent from other archives by its and others. structure; it combines the functions Th e Archives-Museum has about of an archives and a museum, which thirty personal funds of cultural promotes effi cient use of the NAF of workers that went through the hell Ukraine. of Stalin’s : B. Antonen- Among the components of the ex- ko-Davydovych, Ostap Vyshnia, position are memorial study rooms V. Hzhytskyi, G. Kochur etc. of the Ukrainian cultural workers of A signifi cant group of funds are the XX century: poet A. Malyshko personal funds of the masters of and composer P. Maiboroda; writers sixties – V. Stus, I. Svitlychnyi, A. Holovko, I. Mykytenko, P. Panch, Ye. Sverstiuk, O. Zalyvakha, L. Pervomaisky, N. Rybak, Yu. Smoly- A. Horska and other. ch, M. Stelmakh, Yu. Yanovsky; fi lm Since the beginning of 1990s, the director and writer O. Dovzhenko; Archives-Museum has been ac- artist M. Glushchenko. Th ese are pri- 4949 tively collecting documents of the marily room interiors that refl ect the Archives of Ukraine

Oleksandr V. Lypynskyi; artist L. Morozova; Bohomazov. writer I. Vilde, and architecture-his- “Molytva proty torian M. Tsapenko. neba” (“Praying Over recent years, solid interna- to the sky”) tional expositions have been created on the bases of the Archives-Mu- seum. Th ey are devoted to the key events in lives of Ukrainian people, our State, and among their topics are as follows: the 100th anniver- life and work of these people of arts. sary of the Ukrainian work emigra- In the studies are displayed furniture, tion to Canada, Ukrainians in Rus- writing utensils, household objects, sia, “Nashoho Tsvitu Po Vsiomu graphic arts pieces dating back to the Svity” (Our blossom – all around the end of XIX–XX centuries, as well as world), Ukrainian-German histori- unique printed materials. cal connections, the 50th anniver- Th e CSAMLA of Ukraine has ex- sary of accession of the Crimea to the positions devoted to the West-Eu- Ukrainian SSR, “Shchedryi Vechir – ropean geniuses of XVI–XIX Dobryi Vechir”, “Tuzla” – Ukrainian centuries – I. S. Bach and its sons, Land etc. J. B. Lulli, G. F. Telemann, In order to ensure effi cient search W. A. Mozart, L. V. Beethoven; to the for archival documents, printed writers of “Prague School” – Olek- materials, and museum objects, sci- sandr Oles, Oleg Olzhych, Olena Te- entifi c and reference aids have been liha, Ye. Malaniuk, L. Mosendz; sing- established in the Archives-Museum, er I. Kozlovskyi; writers – laureates a system of catalogues is functioning, of Shevchenko prize – O. Gonchar, and information and search system, P. Zahrebelnyi; fi lm director and ac- two databases of which (archives tor, founder of the Ukrainian the- funds and institutions) contain in- ater of the XX century L. Kurbas; formation on the availability of docu- historian, publicist, public fi gure ments for their further use in publi- cations, radio- and Kostiantyn TV-programmes Piskorskyi. “Ukraine” and demonstration in exhibitions, has been automated. Th ere is a reading- room in the CSAM- LA of Ukraine, which may be used by persons interest- 5050 ed in archives docu- ments. Central State Archives

The Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine

Historical Background Implementation of electronic records flow requires creation of the optimal conditions for the government storage of elec- tronic records and information resources. In connection with the above, the need in establishing the Central State Electronic Ar- chives of Ukraine the (CSEAU) arose, which was founded on May, 12, 2007 as a single storage point of the electronic records of the National Archival Fund in Ukraine. Centralized government stor-

Address: 24, Solomianska Str., age of electronic records en- Kyiv, 03110 visages a transfer of electronic Tel.: +380 (44) 273-32-98 records from institutions and Fax.: +380 (44) 273-32-97 E-mail: [email protected] agencies to state archives, their Web: tsdea.archives.gov.ua preservation, and subsequent transfer for permanent storage Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 (to stop “Andryi to the Central State Electronic Golovko Str.”) Archives of Ukraine. Description of Archival Reading M – Th 8.15am – 5.00pm, room F 8.15am – 4pm Holdings hours of operation: The Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine stores elec- Director: Olena Us tronic records and information resources of the National Ar- chival Fund, preserves records thereof, ensure their integ- rity, and creates conditions for their use. The Archives preserves: – electronic records of institu- tions and agencies transferred 51 by state archives; Archives of Ukraine

Archivists of the CSEAU tion resources at work: busy storage as with maintenance its prior- operations ity. Among its key achieve- ments, the Concept of electronic re- cords life-cy- cle planning that sets forth the life-cycle of an elec- tronic record from the mo- – electronic records and infor- ment of its generation to perma- mation resources of natural per- nent archival storage should be sons transferred either by state ar- mentioned. chives or their owners; Th e Archives specialists are work- – electronic records of legal enti- ing to address complex issues as- ties and natural persons received sociated with elaboration of the from abroad; technologies for electronic records – filing records and archives permanent storage and creation of information books (descriptions, the model of electronic records as a catalogues, field guides etc). data object. The Archives regards formation Th e Archives is presently inter- and elaboration of the legal and ested in accumulating information normative framework on the is- resources, in particular, websites sues of electronic records flow and and databases, as well as records electronic records and informa- of prominent people. Th e Central State Electronic Ar- Workshop staff of the Central chives of Ukraine cur- State Electronic rently stores the collec- Archives of tion of such web-sites, Ukraine as “Presidential Elec- tion 2010”, “Local Elec- tions in Ukraine 2010”, “2003–2010 web-ar- chive of “Ukrinform” – Ukrainian National Information Agency”, 5252 “Chornobyl Disaster – 25 Years Later” etc. Central State Archives

The Central State Archives of Foreign Ucrainica

Historical Background Th e question about organiza- tion of preservation of docu- ments, which are historical and cultural heritage of foreign Ukrai- nians, arose aft er declaration of Independence of Ukraine, when owing to deideologization of so- cial and political life, open for- eign policy of the State appeared more options for direct contacts with representatives of Diaspora. Th e Decree of the President of Ukraine from October, 13, 2006 No 875/2006 “On national con- cept of cooperation with foreign Ukrainians” and the Resolution

Address: 3, Solomianska Str., of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyiv, 03110 Ukraine from July, 26, 2006 No Tel.: +380 (44) 520-05-17 1034 “On ratifi cation of the state Fax.: +380 (44) 520-05-17 E-mail: [email protected] programme for cooperation with Web: tsdazu.gov.ua foreign Ukrainians for the period up to 2012” was the background Transport: trolleybus No 3, 40 (to stop “Solomianska Str.”) for solution of the problem. According to the Resolution Reading M–Th 9am – 5pm, of the Cabinet of Ministers of room F 9am – 4.30pm hours of operation: Ukraine from May, 12, 2007 No 279-r. “On Creation of the Cen- Director: Vladyslav Berkovskyi, tral State Electronic Archives of PhD (History) Ukraine and the Central State Ar- chives of Foreign Ucrainica” the Central State Archives of Foreign Ucrainica (CSAFU) was created. Nowadays this is one of the main archival repositories of the State that contains documents about diff erent aspects of life and activ- ity of foreign Ukrainians, enables 53 modern investigator and average Archives of Ukraine

citizen to get information and to nent exhibitions and exhibitions learn more about the achievements on-line are carried out on the basis of Ukrainian Diaspora, which is of the Archives. one of the most numerous national Th e Central State Archives of Diasporas in diff erent countries of Foreign Ucrainica actively col- the world. A considerable part of laborates with state, scientifi c and archival documents is almost un- public organizations. Partners of known among domestic scientifi c the Archives are the Directorate circles. General for Matters of Ukraini- Th e CSAFU is not only a specifi c ans Living Abroad and Cultural- central state archival institution, Humanitarian Cooperation of but also a leading scientifi c centre, the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs of which carries out work aimed at Ukraine, the Oleh Olzhych Foun- creation of a register “Foreign in- dation (Ukraine), the Shevchenko stitutions, which contain foreign Library and Archives of the As- Ucrainica”, publishes “Th e Central sociation of Ukrainians in Great State Archives of Foreign Ucrai- Britain, the Ukrainian Museum- nica Herald” dedicated to the his- Archives in Cleveland (the USA), tory of Ukrainian Diaspora and the Society for Culture and En- problems of archival Ucrainica. lightenment “Ukrainian Family” Th e photo-documentary perma- (the Russian Federation) etc. Total Volume of Funds One of the CSAFU 33 funds, 2 464 storage repositories. units for the time period 2012 from 1554 up to 2010; 4 librarian funds for the time period from 1870 up to 2011 (5 604 storage units of the book fund, 29 942 storage units of magazines and newspapers); 205 storage units of museum objects. Description of Archival Holdings Documents of the Ar- chives refl ect history of economic, political and cultural development of foreign Ukrainians; give 54 us an opportunity to study the phenomenon Central State Archives

Old printings, of Ukrainian Diaspora rare books and as a unique peculiarity manuscripts of culture and history of of the XVI – Ukraine. beginning of the XX centuries Documents of so-called gathered by Preshov collection (18 representatives funds) occupy a signifi - of the Ukrainian cant place among the Diaspora in Archives funds. Docu- ments of the collection ascertain life and activity of such representatives of Ukrainian emigra- tion in Czechoslovakia as: linguist Agenor Arty- movych, scientist Ivan Gorbachevskyi, poet and writer Vasyl Grendzha- Donskyi, bibliographer Petro Zlenko, stage direc- tor Mykola Milenko etc. Collections of documents of such cludes such signifi cant editions Ukrainian emigrant organizations as: theological work of Johann as Ukrainian High Pedagogical In- Eck “Homiliarum doctissimi viri stitute M. Dragomanov in Prague, D. Iohannis Eckii…” (1554), trea- Ukrainian Free University, Ukrai- tise of Rodolphus Agricola “Phri- nian Economic Academy, Ukrai- sii de inventione dialectica libri nian People’s Th eatre, Ukrainian omnes” (1570), Octoechos (lit- Reformatted Real in urgy) and Triod Tsvitna (Flowery the CSR and others deserve atten- Triodion) (1640–1667, Mykhailo tion. It also should be mentioned Slyozka printing house) and oth- that the Archives collection con- ers. Documents which refl ect ac- tains valuable cartographic and tivity of Ukrainian deputies at the deltiology documents of the XIX– parliament of the Austro-Hungar- XX centuries, registers of births of ian Empire (interpellations and Greek-Catholic parishes of Pre- journals) are of particular interest shov Region from 1779 to 1885. for researchers. Collection of old-printings, rare Archival documents of the books and manuscripts of the Ukrainian XVI – beginning of XX centuries, of Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi gathered by Ukrainian Diaspora in in exile (USA) are highly informa- Slovakia, is the most precious pearl tional. Th is fund contains docu- 55 of the Archives. Th e collection in- ments of personal origin of such Archives of Ukraine

Ukrainian emigration periodicals of the interwar period

emigrant religious fi gures as pro- Th e Archives possesses funds of todeacon Vasyl Potiyenko, Bishop modern Ukrainian organizations Bilyak and also documents created with the assistance of for- of the Ukrainian Orthodox Broth- eign Ukrainians: the League of erhood of Metropolitan Vasyl Lyp- Ukrainian Patrons, the Ukrainian kivskyi in exile. division of the International Cul- Th e CSAFU is actively replen- tural and Educational Association. ished with documents of literature A signifi cant amount of docu- and art workers of Ukrainian Dias- ments refers to such leading or- pora from diff erent countries of the ganizations in exile as the State world: Hanna Cherin (USA), Nata- Centre of the Ukrainian People’s lia Zamoulko-Dubouchet (), Republic in exile, the Organization Oleksandra Shchur (Hungary), for the Rebirth of Ukraine, the Or- Oleksandr Deko (Israel), Ihor Bir ganization of Ukrainian National- and Mariya Voloshyna (Russia), and ists, the Provid (leadership coun- also documents of scientists, social cil) of Ukrainian Nationalists, the and political fi gures: Polykarp Her- World Congress of Free Ukraini- asymenko (USA), Oleg Lashchenko ans, the Ukrainian National Union (USA), Natalia Pazunyak (USA), in Canada, the Central Represen- Ilko Borshchak (France), Arcadii tation of the Ukrainian emigration Zhukovskyi (France), Sophia and in Germany, the Central Union of Andrii Melnyk (Luxemburg), the Ukrainian Students etc. 56 wife of Yevhen Konovalets – Olha Th e Archives distinguishing fea- (Germany) etc. ture is that it has both librarian Central State Archives and museum funds. Th e museum about life and activity of foreign fund contains personal things Ukrainians is contained in period- of religious fi gures, decorations, ical and non-periodical editions originals of signets and stamps which were published in Ukraine of diff erent emigrant institutions and behind its boundaries: Aus- including the League of Nations tria, Canada, Germany, Poland, in East Europe, the Ukrainian the USA, France and Czechoslo- Academic Committee in Prague, vakia, in particular magazines the Ukrainian Drama School in “Vyzvolnyi Shlyakh”, “Rozbudova Prague etc. derzhavy”, “Samostiina Ukraii- Th e uniqueness of printing cli- na”, newspapers “Holos Taboru”, chés consists in the fact that most “Krakivski Visti”, “Ukrayiinskyi of them were used as illustrations Sokil” and many others. for the book “Ukrainian emigra- Th e Archives is being constantly tion. Cultural work of Ukrainian replenished with new incomings emigration 1919–1939” by Symon which enrich the National Archi- Narizhnyi. val Fund and give us a complete Archival librarian fund contains notion of Ukrainians’ contribu- valuable editions which were pub- tion to international historical and lished abroad in such publish- cultural process. ing houses as “Hoverla” Ukrainian military (New York), “Molode decorations, Zhytya” (Augsburg), signets and “Ukrainske Slovo” (Re- stamps of gensburg), the Ukrai- emigrant institutions which nian Free Academy of the CSAFU stores Sciences in Canada etc. Th e Archives library has fi ction with autographs of such authors as: Ros- tyslav Bratunya, Oles Gonchar, Ivan Drach, Pavlo Zagrebelnyi etc. Th e CSAFU preserves printed editions from personal libraries of fa- mous representatives of Ukrainian Diaspora: historian, public and political fi gure Arcadii Zhukovskyi, writer and editor Lesya Khraplyva- Shchur. An enormous 57 amount of information Old printed books in library of the Mykolayiv region State 58 Archive The State Archives of Region

Th e State Archives in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Th e State Archives of Vinnytsia Region Th e State Archives of Volyn Region Th e State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region Th e State Archives of Donetsk Region Th e State Archives of Zhytomyr Region Th e State Archives of Transcarpathian Region Th e State Archives of Zaporizhzhya Region Th e State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Region Th e State Archives of Kyiv Region Th e State Archives of Kirovograd Region Th e State Archives of Lugansk Region Th e State Archives of Lviv Region Th e State Archives of Mykolaiv Region Th e State Archives of Odesa Region Th e State Archives of Poltava Region Th e State Archives of Rivne Region Th e State Archives of Sumy Region Th e State Archives of Ternopil Region Th e State Archives of Kharkiv Region Th e State Archives of Kherson Region Th e State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Region Th e State Archives of Cherkasy Region Th e State Archives of Chernivtsi Region Th e State Archives of Chernigiv Region Th e State Archives in the City of Kyiv Th e State Archives in the City of Sevastopol

59 Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Historical Background The importance of archival institutions is clearly growing. Public attention to the archi- val documents based on many changes in state and society in recent years that have provided an opportunity to look back the past and give an objective as- sessment of facts and events that are reflected in the annals of the archives. The State Archives in the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea counts its history by the decision of the Commissioner of Education of the Crimean So- viet Socialist Republic on May, Address: 3, Kechkemetska Str., 22, 1919 on the organization of , 95050 (building 1) the Crimean Central Archives 1a, Pavlenko Str., Simferopol, 95050 (building 2) (Krimtsentrarhiv). On June, Tel.: +380 (652) 22-82-61 27, 1919 to November 1920 the Fax: +380 (652) 22-82-61 Archives has been teaching and E-mail: [email protected] Web: daark.org.ua supporting the establishment of Tawryda University. The Ar- Transport: trolleybus No 5/7, 6, 13, 14 chives includes documentaries (to stop “Moskovska ploshcha”), trolleybus No 5/7, 6 archives of Tawryda provincial (to stop “Medinstytut”) offices, created on February, 28, 1791, collected documen- Reading M–Th 9.30am – 4pm room F 9.30am – 1pm tary materials of former pro- hours of operation: vincial agencies. In November, 1920 according to the decision Director: Oleh Lobov of the Department of Educa- tion of the Crimean Revolution- ary Committee Krimtsentrarhiv was restored. Since June, 1921 Krimtsentrarhiv became subor- 6060 dinate to the Crimean Regional Archival Department under the The State Archives of Region

People’s Commissariat of Educa- of the Crimean Autonomous Re- tion of the Crimean Autonomous public, which became the subject Republic. On March, 18, 1922 the of the National State Archives of archival department and the ar- the People’s Commissariat of In- chives were directly subordinate ternal Ministers of the Crimean to the People’s Commissariat of Autonomous Republic. Internal Affairs of the Crimean According to the directive of Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re- the USSR People’s Commissariat public, from January, 10, 1926 – of Internal Affairs on June, 30, the Central Executive Commit- 1941 the secret documents of tee of the Crimean Autonomous the Archives, the current office Republic. On April, 21, 1926 the of the Supreme Council and the Central Executive Committee of Council of People’s Commissars the Crimean Autonomous Re- of the Crimean Autonomous Re- public approved the “Regulations public, as well as the Archives of on the Crimean Central Archi- the Crimean Regional Commit- val Administration”, by which tee of the CPSU (B) during the the Crimean Archives has been war were evacuated to Tyumen, divided into the Historical Ar- Omsk Region, and were returned chives and the Archives of the in 1945. The bulk of the archival October Revolution. documents remained in the occu- On February, 4, 1939 Archive was subordi- Genealogical tree of nated to the People’s Lieutenant Commissariat of In- Mustafa Aga ternal Affairs of the Machinskyi Crimean Autonomous Republic. According to the decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR from March, 29, 1941 and Circular of the Main Archival De- partment of the USSR People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs on April, 7, 1941 the His- torical Archives and the Archives of the October Revolution were united in a single 61 Central State Archives Archives of Ukraine

Documents of the Crimean Re- from the funds gion of the Archival of the State Department of the Archives in the Ministry of Internal Autonomous Republic of Affairs of the Crime- Crimea an Region. Accord- ing to the Decree of the Council of Min- isters of the USSR on October, 4, 1958 “The system of state archives of the So- viet Union”, the State pied territories. During the Nazi Archives of the Crimean Region occupation of 1941–1944 years in was renamed into the Crimean Simferopol there were the Cen- Regional State Archives. tral and the Historical Archives On July, 2, 1960 the Archives subordinated to the cultural de- were subordinated to the Execu- partment of city department. tive Committee of the Crimean The Central State Archives of Regional Council of People’s the Crimean Autonomous Re- Deputies. public of the Republican State According to the Order of the Archives of the People’s Commis- State Archival Department at the sariat of Internal Affairs of the Council of Ministers on August, Crimean Autonomous Republic 7, 1980 No 67 and the Order of resumed its activities in the terri- the Archival Division of the Ex- tory of the Crimea in April, 1944 ecutive Committee of the Crime- after the liberation from Nazi oc- an Regional Council of People’s cupation Deputies on August, 15, 1980 In June, 1945 because of the liq- No 42 the Crimean Regional uidation of the Crimean Autono- State Archives was renamed into mous Soviet Socialist Republic the State Archives of the Crime- and formation of the Crimean an Region. region, the Central Archives was In connection with the reorga- renamed into the State Archives nization of the executive power of the Crimean Region of the Of- in 1988 and the elimination of fice of the Commissariat of Inter- archival departments of regional nal Affairs of the RSFSR on the executive committees, the Archi- Crimean Region. val management business in the In February, 1954 the Crime- area has moved to the State Ar- an Region became a part of the chives. Since November, 22, 1988 6262 UkSSR. The Archives was re- the Archives directly subordinat- named into the State Archives ed to the Executive Committee The State Archives of Region of the Crimean Regional Council of People’s Dep- uties, and was renamed into the State Archives of the Crimean Region at the Executive Com- mittee of the Crimean Regional Council of Peo- ple’s Deputies. With the restoration in February, 1991 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on March, 22, 1991 the Archives was renamed to the Central State Archives Central Archives of the Republic Exhibition (Central State Archives of the of the Crimea”, from January, 6, of documents Crimea), the Council of Min- 1995 the Archives was renamed isters of the Crimean Autono- into the State Archives under the mous Republic, and on August, Government of the Crimea, from 20, 1991 – the Council of Min- April, 9, 1996 – the State Ar- isters of the ARC. Based on the chives under the Government of Decree of the Presidium of the the Autonomous Republic of the Supreme Council of the Crimean Crimea, from October, 13, 1997 – Autonomous Soviet Socialist Re- the State Archives of the Council public on October, 1, 1991 “On of Ministers of the Autonomous the transfer of the Archives of Republic of the Crimea. the Crimean Republic Commit- According to the Law of tee of the Communist Party of Ukraine “On Amendments to Ukraine, the Central Archives the Law of Ukraine “On Nation- of the Council of Ministers of al Archival Fund and Archival the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Institutions” of December, 13, Socialist Republic” archival col- 2001 No 2888–III and the deci- lections, building, production sion of the Council of Ministers equipment and the staff of the of the Autonomous Republic Archives of the Crimean Revolu- of the Crimea on May, 22, 2002 tionary Committee of the Com- No 150 “On measures to imple- munist Party of Ukraine were ment the resolutions of the Verk- transferred to CDA Crimea. hovna Rada of Autonomous According to the order of the Republic of the Crimea” The Main Archival Administration Council of Ministers of the ARC of Ukraine as of January, 6, 1995 approved the Regulations of the 6363 No 3 “On the renaming of the State Archives in the Autono- Archives of Ukraine

deputies meeting at the Crimean peninsu- la. They represent the labels of the Crimean Khans and Turkish Sultans Fermanaghes, confirming the prop- erty and estate rights of Crimean-Tatar ar- istocracy. In a personal fund of the Popovs there are documents for the earlier period (1653– 1920) – decrees, or- ders of Catherine II, the correspondence Work in the mous Republic of the Crimea. about diplomatic relations with reading-room This archive is the name so far. the Crimea and Turkey, reports Total Volume of Funds about the battles (1771–1773). By the time of 2012, there were There are 170 labels and 6 996 funds, 1 426 260 units of 64 Fermanaghes of the Crimean storing paper documents, 4 573 Khans in the State Archives in units of account of film docu- the Autonomous Republic of the ments, 37 774 units of account Crimea. The earliest of them are: of documentary photographs, Sahib Giray’s labels (1547–1549), 169 units of account of video Muhamet Giray’s labels (1578) documents, 597 units of account and also Sultan Murad’s III of audio documents at the State (1582) and Mehmed’s IV (1671) Archives in the Autonomous Re- Fermanagh. public of the Crimea. Period up to 1917 presented by Description of Archival funds of Tawryda regional and Holdings provincial government, the Of- The Archives also consist of fice of the Governor of Tawry- documentary materials from the da, Theodosia and Kerch-Yeni- time of joining the Crimea to Rus- kalskyi , town councils, sia (1783) till the present time. managements, district and vil- The earliest document are dating lage administrations, police and the XVI century, and preserved judicial authorities, prosecutors in the funds of the Commission, and notaries; of birth and county established to parse disputes over offices, military and administra- 64 lands and to determine the duties tive and military institutions, of the Tawryda province of noble tax, credit and customs agen- The State Archives of Region cies, institutions of the Ministry of the State, agriculture and forestry, trans- port and commu- nications, building organizations and industrial enter- prises, educational authorities, scien- tific and cultural institutions and organizations, in- stitutions of spiri- tual authority. They reflect the politi- cal, economic and cultural life of Tawryda Region tions of institutions of the Soviet Documents and province, the stages of de- Socialist Republic of Tawryda, from the funds velopment of cities and villages, the first and the second Crime- of the State Archives in the the administrative and territorial an regional government, the Autonomous changes in the composition and Crimean Soviet Socialist Repub- Republic movement of population, the es- lic in Chief of the Armed Forces of Crimea tablishment of foreign colonies in in the South of Russia. The bulk the Crimea by immigrants from of the archival documents are other countries and the consoli- the funds of the period of 1921– dation of the two plots of land, 2007. Creation and the ruling of distribution of land to Russian the Crimean Autonomous Soviet nobility, development and con- Socialist Republic in 1921–1941, struction of the Southern coast, reconstruction and development the construction of factories, the of the national economy, cultural development of cat fisheries, and and nation-building are covered fisheries, horticulture, viticulture in documents of the Crimean, and winemaking, the events of county, city, district revolution- the Crimean War (1853–1856), ary committees of the Central carrying the bourgeois reforms, Executive Committee and the opening schools, gymnasiums Council of People’s Commissars professional schools, medical in- of the Crimean Autonomous stitutions, activities in the field of Republic, the Supreme Coun- historical and cultural heritage. cil of the Crimean Autonomous The period of the October Revo- Republic, People’s Commissars, lution and the Civil War (1917– county, city, district and village 65 1920) was reflected in the collec- executive committees, Soviets of Archives of Ukraine

Workers, Peasants and Soldiers the funds of the Crimean Repub- Deputies, consignment organi- lic Committee of the Commu- zations. They have a free perfor- nist Party of Ukraine, Sevastopol mance and the five-year plans City Committee of Defence, the for the development of the na- Crimean Staff of the Partisan tional economy and culture of Movement, the Crimean Com- the Crimean Autonomous Re- mission on the history of the public, reviews by industry and Great Patriotic War, the Crime- construction, information on the an republican emergency com- study of the productive forces mission on investigation of the of the peninsula and the devel- atrocities the Nazis, Kerch and opment of mineral resources, Theodosia Town Councils, rural land use and building collective communities and the public es- farms, conversion of All-Union tates. The deportation from the health resort in the Crimea, in- Crimea in 1944 of the Crimean- formation on the deployment , , , of the school chain, the cultural Greeks, represented by acts with and educational establishments, the admission of the property by the cases of deprivation of vot- the special settlers and general- ing rights and dispossession. The izing the data on his account. events of the Great Patriotic War A special set of documents are (1941–1945) were recorded in personal and family archives: autographs and The State photographs of Archives in the the members of Autonomous Romanov’s roy- Republic al family from of Crimea Livadia archives, Karamzin-Mit- sersky’s cor- respondence (including the autograph of a prominent Russian histo- rian and writer N. Karamzin), official and per- sonal documents of Vorontsov- Dashkov, Klein- 66 michel. The Popov’s fund The State Archives of Region contains letters and dispatches of from orchards and vineyards duke G. Potemkin about the set- “Ukrgiprosad”, the main research tlement of the Crimea, Sevastopol and design institute “Krymni- building, information about the iproekt”. They represent projects status of Tawryda, autographs of of land building and land use, senator and poet Derzhavin, in- building cities of the Southern ventor Kulibin, naval commander coast of the Crimea, plans and Ushakov. draw¬ings of individual objects. Personal archives of Profes- In recent years the substantial sor A. Golubev and his wife, the increasing of the State Archives first Russian woman – doctor of in the Autonomous Republic of medicine N. Suslova, first direc- the Crimea was replenished with tor of the Nikita Botanical Gar- 45,473 filtrated cases of the for- den K. Steven, physician F. Mil- mer “osterbaytery” – citizens, gauzen, historian I. Linnichenko stolen in 1942–1944 from the are interesting for researches. Crimea to work in Germany, and Among the personal funds of the 11,522 cases of citizens who had origin of the Soviet period, the been repressed in the 1920s– documents of doctor of geologi- 1950s and rehabilitated in the cal sciences L. Kozin, philologist prescribed manner, transferred and orientalist V. Filippenko, lo- from the General Directorate of cal historian, a member of the Security Service of Ukraine in Union of Artists of the USSR the Crimea. A. Polkanov, archaeologist In the Archives there are con- N. Ernst deserve the attention. centrated film-photo-audio- Scientific and technical docu- video materials, which reflect mentation is concentrated in the socio-political, economic the funds of Tawryda provincial and cultural life of the Crimea drafting room, Building com- in the newsreels and popular mission for the construction of scientific television magazine, urban theatre and apartment TV programs, sound recordings building of the Tawryda prov- of the State Television and Ra- ince of noble deputies meeting, dio Company of the Crimea, in the Theodosia’s city port man- the photo documents, received agement, heads of sections of mainly from the editors of the the Crimean distance highway, Crimean newspapers, sent from Livadia-Massandra specific con- agencies, enterprises sated up trol in the Crimea, the Commit- by an archive specialists. The tee on the planning of resorts in Archives preserves the records the Crimea, the Crimean branch of all-union song contests and of the design of housing and civil festivals, parades amateur, mu- engineering “Krymgrazhdan- sic performed by soloists of the 67 proekt” Ukrainian state Institute Crimean State Philharmonic. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Vinnytsia Region

Historical Background In 1920 the Archival Section for Protection of Antiques, Na- ture and Arts Heritage was es- tablished in Vinnytsia as part of the Podillia Provincial Public Education Office. The same year the Podillia Regional Archives consisting of archival, library and bibliographic departments was established under it. In September, 1920 the Podil- lia Provincial Archival Depart- ment was established under the Provincial Public Education Of- fice, and the Podillia Regional Archives was disbanded. In February, 1921 the Provin-

Address: 17, Soborna Srt., cial Committee for the Protec- Vinnytsia, 21050 (building 1) tion of Antiquities, Nature and 12, Pyrohov Str., Art Heritage (Hubkopys) was Vinnytsia, 21050 (building 2) Tel./fax: +380 (432) 35-26-01 organized under the Provincial Tel: +380 (432) 35-03-00 Public Education Office; an ar- E-mail:[email protected] chival section became a part Web: davio.com.ua of it. The Podillia Provincial Transport: tram No 1, 4, 6; Archival Department was dis- trolleybus No 4, 5, 10, 11, 12 solved. (to stop Soborna Str.) In the spring, 1922 the Podillia Reading M–F 9am – 5pm Provincial Historical Archives room hours for pre-revolutionary archival of operation: documents keeping was estab- Director: Yurii Legun lished in Vinnytsia. It contained DSc (History) materials of the Podillia and Kamianets-Podilsky archival departments. This was the be- ginning of the State Archives of Vinnytsia Region. 6868 On July, 24, 1925 due to the liquidation of the guberniya of The State Archives of Region

evacuated its Main building of secret funds. the State Archives The rest of of Vinnytsia Region before the archival renovation. 2010 funds were left on the occupied territory. The work of the Regional Historical Archives resumed under Ger- Podillia the Provincial Archival man occupation on November, Department ceased to exist, and 1, 1941. its functions were transferred to In 1944, the Archives resumed the Provisional Archival Com- its activity and was renamed to mission, which in turn trans- the State Archives of Vinnytsia ferred its documents to three Region. district archival departments Since 1980 the Archives has established at Vinnytsia, Mohy- been called the State Archives of liv-Podilsky and . The Vinnytsia Region. In December, Historical Archives was fully in- 1988 the Archival Department tegrated into the Vinnytsia Dis- of the Regional Executive Com- trict Archival Department. mittee was disbanded, and the In 1930, the Vinnytsia District Regional Archives became re- Archival Department was reor- sponsible for the administration ganized into the Vinnytsia Local of the Archives in the Region. Archival Department, and at the In 1991, in accordance to the end of 1931 the Vinnytsia Local Decree of the Presidium of the Archival Department was reor- Council of Ministers dated Au- ganized into the Vinnytsia State gust, 27, the former party ar- Historical Archives. chives of the Region were added As soon as Vinnytsia Region to the State Archives of Vinnyt- was founded in February, 1932, sia Region. the Archives was renamed to Total Volume of Funds the Vinnytsia Regional Histori- 5 617 funds (1 468 069 units of cal Archives responsible to the preservation (22 895 linear me- newly-established the Vinnytsia ters) for the years 1612–2011; Regional Archival Department. 3 730 preservation units: scien- With the Nazi invasion, the tific and technical documents for 6969 Regional Archival Department the years 1825–2002; Archives of Ukraine

Assembly books of zemstvo courts sky (boundary) of East Podillia. courts, bound- End of the ary courts of ap- XVIII – beginning peal and zemstvo of the XIX centuries courts. The funds of the Litynsky Boundary Court of Appeal contain scripts from as far back as 1612 relating to the es- tablishment of boundaries for villages of Dia- 22 preservation units: docu- kivtsi, Zynovyntsi, mentary films for the years Kozhukhovo and others as well 1965–1994; as certified copies and abstracts 35 704 preservation units: doc- of the documents, dating as far umentary photographs for the back as 1442. These include years 1890–2010; certificates, purchase deeds, 213 preservation units: audio- boundary-decrees, and bequests documents for the years 1961– of Uniate and Moldovan church 1994. Metropolitans to priests for par- Description of Archival ishes. Holdings The activity of educational In the repositories of the Ar- institutions is widely reflected chives there are stocks of estab- in funds of Director of Podil- lishments, which have operated lia province schools, including in the territory of Bratslavshchy- documents of Polish schools na (East Podillia) since the (1770s), Podillia gymnasium eighties of the XVIII century. (1832–1846), Bar School at Uni- Documents representing the era ate Church Monastery (1820s) of Rzeczpospolita are contained and - district in the funds of the Commission schools (1819–1821). on collection of the tenth grosz Among the funds of private or- donation for troop maintenance igin from the pre-Soviet period in Bratslav district, in the funds are those of the magnate fami- of the Bratslav Magistrate and lies: the Pototskys, the Hrokhol- Director of Schools in Podillia skys, the Strohanovs, the Shcher- Guberniya. A great deal of docu- batovs. They mainly contain ments from that period appear in private letters, photos, partially – 7070 original form or as certified cop- documents of legal and econom- ies in the funds of the pidkomor- ic origin. The State Archives of Region

The Archives also contains birth nist and nationalist underground registers from parishes of various organizations, about the economy denominations: Catholic (from and army provision, the accom- 1773), Orthodox (from 1792), Ju- modation of occupational troops, daic (from 1834), and Lutheran about prisoner-of-war camps, (from 1909). ghettos with lists of prisoners, and The era of the Ukrainian Na- other material. tional Rada and the Hetmanate From 1993 to 1999, documents is represented in the funds of the of investigations of rehabilitated Podillian Provincial Commis- citizens – victims of political re- sar of the Provisional Govern- pressions, filtration cases of for- ment, the Podillian Provincial mer ostarbeiters and prisoners (headman), the Podillia of the War – were transferred Provincial Commissar, the volost to the office of the Archives by (district) people’s councils, the the Regional Security Service of Board of the Podillian Railway – Ukraine. They cover the period establishments and organizations from 1918 to the early 1980s. which had existed since pre-rev- Documents of the funds of the olutionary times. These funds Communist Party and Komso- contain information about the mol cover the period from 1919 organizing of local representation (partially from 1917) to 1990. within the Tsentralna Rada, the Particularly interesting are the Hetmanate and the Direktoria. Illustration of In the funds of the Vinnytsia Prus emblem in City Council there is information a dossier about on the presence of the Direktoria the nobility origin and the Government of the Ukrai- of the Fastikovyi family. Beginning nian People’s Republic in Vinnyt- of the XIX sia during , as well century as the Chief Ataman of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Repub- lic, S. Petliura, in April-May, 1920. During World War II, Vinnytsia Region was a part of German and Rumanian occupied zones. There- fore, the Archives contains the funds of occupation provincial government organs, educational, judicial, and economic establish- ments. They also contain infor- mation about the struggle of the Ukrainian Rebellion Army (UPA) 71 brigades, the activities of commu- Archives of Ukraine

funds of provinc, volost, district XX century were collected by and region organizations of the H. Bryling (1897–1980), former Communist Party of Ukraine, Director of the Museum of Lo- containing the minutes of bureau cal Lore, History and Economy. meetings, plenary sessions, con- As well, a large deposit ethno- ferences; information of state tax graphic material is located in the inspectorate offices and police; in funds of N. Prysiazhniuk and and political and economic re- M. Rudenko. views of Podillia during the for- A large body of information is mative years of the Soviet period contained within documentary and its so-called Soviet modern- photographs, which reflect events ization. in public and political life, devel- Funds and collections of pri- opment of national economy, ed- vate origin are also of great im- ucation, public health, and daily portance. Of special note is the lifestyle of the population. One fund of State Artist of the UkSSR, particular collection contains composer H. Davydovskyi (1866– photos of settlements between 1952), where the manuscripts of the end of the XIX century to the his compositions are preserved. end of the XX century. One can Interesting materials relating to trace the development of town- the history of the City of Vin- planning in Vinnytsia Region by nytsia at the beginning of the examining these photos.

Building of the State Archives of Vinnytsia Region. 2010

7272 The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Volyn Region

Historical Background The Archives was founded in December, 1939 under the name of the Volyn Regional Histori- cal Archives in subordination of the Volyn Regional Archi- val Department of the Ukrai- nian People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In 1941 it was given a new name – the State Archives of Volyn Region. Dur- ing the years of Nazi occupa- tion from June, 1941 it stops its work and resumes operation after liberation of the region in March, 1944. During this pe- riod archived funds diminished for 1163947 units. In post-war Address: 21, Veteraniv Str., , 43024 (building 1) years the archival employees had 37a, Glushets Str., conducted a great deal of work Lutsk, 43024 (building 2) concerning systematization, Tel.: +380 (332) 25-75-33, 25-79-82, 25-75-33, 25-71-45 scientific and technical docu- E-mail: [email protected] ments processing, improvement Web: volyn.archives.gov.uа of their storage conditions, in- Transport: Th e archives is situated formation system creation. In not far from railway 1958 the Archives gets the name and bus stations of the Volyn Regional State Ar- Reading M–F 8am–5.15pm chives and (since 1960) submits room hours to the Executive Committee of operation: of the Volyn Regional Soviet Director: Volodymyr Hyka of Working People’s Deputies; from 1980 – the Volyn Region State Archives. From October, 5, 1988 because of the liquidation of archives department of the Volyn Regional Executive Com- mittee, it carries out manage- ment of archives affairs in the Region and is a scientific and 7373 methodical centre. From 1997 Archives of Ukraine

Letter of Pope Pie XI to canonic capitula at the cathedral in Polotsk to the titular bishop Zenopolithanci Stefan Valchicevich in the case of Bishopal operation out of . Rome. July, 20, 1928

it is a structural subdivision of the and privileges, church metrical and Regional State Administration. marriage books and some docu- Total Volume of Funds ments from collection gathered 4 778 funds, 1 149 003 units by the Volyn Union of Sciences (17 910 literature materials) from Friends. the XVI century till 2009; Th e funds of the Russian Empire 690 units of scientifi c and tech- period (1796–1919) comprise docu- nical documents for the period of ments of local state government 1945–1984; bodies, city and district self-govern- 3 units of fi lm documents for the ment (city councils and justices, land period of 1981–1982; tenure commissions, area, district 31 681 units of documentary justices), judicial and police bodies photographs for the period of (Lutsk area court, area courts). 1917–2010; Th e state of education is partly 373 units of phono-documents described in documents of Lutsk for the period of 1945–2005; men’s and women’s high schools, 8 units of video-documents for Lutsk pro-gymnasium. History of 1992, 1994, 1998, 2004, 2010. religion and church establishments Description of Archival is characterized by the funds of Holdings Lutsk Uniate General Th eological In the Archives the separate Consistory, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, 74 documents of the XVI century are , Lutsk ecclesiastic rules and preserved: royal donatives’ charters dean’s offi ces. The State Archives of Region

For the period of Volyn occu- ures funds, Directorate of the pation by Poland (1921–1939) state forests of Lutsk City. in the Archives the funds of Vo- The financial state of Volyn Re- lyn province are preserved: lo- gion is characterized by the doc- cal state administration bodies, uments of area treasuries, Volyn the Civil Government of Volyn financial chamber, department of earths and front, area Polish state participating bank in village councils, Lutsk city gov- Lutsk. ernment. Activity of police bodies, court Development of industry, agri- and offices of public prosecutor culture and forestry is described are represented in the documents in the documents of Volyn re- of Volyn command of state police gional land tenure and land ten- funds as well as Lutsk regional court, and Office of Pub- lic Prosecutor, prisons of Kovel and Lutsk. Functioning of edu- cational, cultural and training establishments and bodies is highlight- ed by the documents of curatorium of Volyn school district in Rivne, Kovel, Lutsk school in- spectorates, Lutsk high schools among them – Lutsk Ukrainian high school named after Lesya Ukrainka. Documents (including declassified ones) of Volyn society of theatrical culture dis- tribution funds, depart- ment of “” so- ciety, Volyn Ukrainian From the left to the right: director of the State association, Ukrainian Archives of Volyn Region Volodymyr Hyka, parliamentary represen- General consul of the Republic of Poland in Lutsk Vojtcheh Ghalonzca, representative tation in Volyn Region, of Museum of Books and Printing in Ostrog Lutsk Union of Orthodox Svitlana Pozihovska in the presentation of the faith adherents named catalogue “The old print of Rzeczpospolita of after Petro Mohyla, rep- the XVII – XVIII centuries in Volyn library” in the reading-room of the State Archives of Volyn resented struggle of Vo- 75 Region. December, 2006 lyn people for their social Archives of Ukraine

and national liberation, for the Informative base of the Nazi maintenance of Ukrainian lan- occupation period of Volyn Re- guage, culture, faith, traditions gion (1941–1944) is insignificant. etc. Unique are the data about Among the funds of this period cult buildings. there is declassified fund of the In the Archives there are partly Volyn Ukrainian Nationalists preserved documents of inter- Organization, the documents of war period funds: district, re- which represent activity of the gional commissariats, military Ukrainian Nationalists Organi- and revolutionary commissars, zation – the Ukrainian Rebellion district militia, Temporal Gov- Army in Volyn Region. ernment of Lutsk in 1939. The most complete in the Ar- chives are the docu- The State ments of Soviet insti- Archives of Volyn Region. tutions, organizations, Building 2. industrial enterprises, Lutsk. 2007 and financial bodies, educational establish- ments that resumed operation or were cre- ated in the post-war period. Important docu- ments, including those declassified, are in the funds of lead- ing bodies in religious affairs. They contain information about temples, priests, im- portant events in his- tory of the Region. The Archives pre- serves funds of per- sonal origin, formed on the basis of docu- ments concerning life, activity, works of the prominent people of Volyn Region – scientists, , 76 writers, journalists, artists, industrial and The State Archives of Region agriculture workers. Here there ten the funds of executive power are the evidences of bodies (area, city, district settle- in Ukraine (1932–1933), prison- ment and village councils) indus- ers of the Stalin camps narratives, trial enterprises, collective farms, information about priests pursu- justice administrations, regional ing for their aspiring to claim the executive committee, district Ukrainian church, recollections committees and municipal com- of Volodymyr-Volynskyi district mittees of the Communist Party habitants about Ukrainian and of Ukraine, Komsomol and trade Polish relations in 1939–1952. unions are used. Funds of the former Commu- Cine-documents of the Archives nist Party of Ukraine, the Volyn comprise the fi lms about open- Regional Committee of Young ing of the Memorial complex Communist League of Ukraine in the burned by the Nazi vil- (1939–1991) (city committees lage of Korteshy, Ratno district, and district committees of the his¬torical events in Volyn Re- Party and Komsomol (1944– gion, as well as items about Ukrai- 1991), as well as so-called filter nian and Polish confl ict in the late affairs from the funds of the Se- 40s of the XX century, celebration curity Management Department of 1000th anniversary of Volody- of Ukraine in Volyn Region con- myr-Volynskyi and others. Th e cerning the citizens, taken out Archives possesses rich collec- for the forced works in Hitler tion of documentary photographs coalition countries (1942–1944), representing public and political, criminal cases of out-of-court economic, cultural life of the re- bodies, rehabilitated citizens gion in diff erent periods of his- (1939–1992) have been trans- tory, among them the portraits of ferred to the regional archives famous people, pictures of archi- in 1991. tectural, cult buildings, including In the last years Archives was the lost ones, obelisks, landscapes enlarged by the documents of of the region cities and villages. first public, political formations Phono-documents preserve of Volyn Region of the new- the records of voices of peoples’ est period of the state system of deputies of Ukraine, Heroes of Ukraine formation, among them, Socialist Labour, participants of society “Lev” (Lion), Volyn re- the Great Patriotic War, members gional organization of “Narod- of the Communist Party of West nyi Rukh” of Ukraine for altera- Ukraine, the Communist League tion, Volyn organization of the of Young People of West Ukraine, Ukrainian Democratic Party the Ukrainian Rebellion Army, and others. soldiers-internationalists, wit- For implementation of social nesses of holodomor, prominent 77 and legal certifi cates, the most of- writers, and others. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region

Historical Background In the year 1920, the Kateryno- slav Province Archives Com- mittee affiliated with province department of public education was founded. At the beginning of 1922 it was terminated in connection with the Province Archives Board Foundation; in affiliation with the Province Archives Board on February, 1, 1922, the Katerynoslav Prov- ince Archives (known as the Katerynoslav Province Historic Archives since 1923) was estab- lished. On June, 10, 1925 the Province Archives Board ceased to exist; the functions were Address: 89, K. Libknekht Str., Dnipropetrovsk, 49069 delegated to the Katerynoslav (Building 1) (Dnipropetrovsk since 1926) 10, Leninhragska Str., Region Archives Board. As the Dnipropetrovsk, 49000 (Building 2) after-effect of district extension Tel.: (056)732-49-68 in 1926, the Dnipropetrovsk Tel./Fax: (056)732-49-69 and Pavlograd Archives Boards E-mail:[email protected], [email protected] merged into the Dnipropetro- Web: dado.org.ua vsk Region Historic Archives. On October, 1, 1931 the Dni- Transport: to Building 1: tram Nо 4 propetrovsk Local Archives (to stop “Telman Str.”) , Board was initiated in affilia- to the Building 2: tion with and under supervi- tram Nо 1 (to stop “Opera and Ballet Th eatre”) sion of the city council. After Dnipropetrovsk Region has Reading M–Th 10am – 17pm been formed in 1932, the Ar- room hours of operation: chives named the State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region and Director: Nina Kystruska came under supervision of the Dnipropetrovsk Region Ar- 7878 chives Board. Within the time period of 1938–1959, the Dni- The State Archives of Region

The list of propetrovsk Region Historic samples of Archives was subordinated to textiles of the Archives Department of Katerynoslav NKVD in Dnipropetrovsk Re- Fiscal Cloth Manufacture. gion. With the outbreak of 1792–1797 World War II certain amount of documents and reference aids of the Archives were evacu- ated, out of those left behind on the occupied territory over 770 000 units for 1736–1941 period vanished. In 1943 after the liberation of Dnipropetro- vsk land the Archives recom- menced its work. In 1958 the Archives was renamed into the Dnipropetrovsk Region State Archives, and in 1980 into the State Archives of Dnipropetro- vsk Region, and since 1992 it Total Volume of Funds has been subordinated to the 4 706 funds, 1 348 654 unites Dnipropetrovsk Regional State for the last quarter of the XVIII Administration. century – 2011; 12 592 unites of scientific and technical records for 1932–1987; 57 unites of video documents Warrant of the Minister of Justice for 1961–2009; H. Derzhavin 52 903 unites of photo docu- with his own ments for 1890–2008; signature. 1803 492 unites of audio documents for 1961–2009. Description of Archival Holdings The oldest manuscripts dat- ing back to the XVIII century are preserved in the funds of the Katerynoslav Boundary Of- fice, Fiscal Chamber and in the Chambers of Civil and Criminal Courts, Province Public Pros- ecutor, “Verkhnya Rozprava” of Katerynoslav Regency, “Verkh- 7979 nii” and “Nizhnii” Zemstvo Archives of Ukraine

Plan of boundary The funds of the Soviet times survey by contain documents of state gov- general-field marshal ernmental bodies. K. Rozumovskyi The funds of establishments, in Katerynopol in organizations, enterprises of Kostiantynivskyi World War II period make up a District of Katerynoslav separate set. Region. 1788. The Archives holds collections Boundary survey of records concerning econom- was carried out ic, cultural, social and political while distributing lands of life of Dnipropetrovsk Region Zaporizka Sich, (1923–1998), memories of the terminated local residents regarding in 1775 of 1932–1933 in Ukraine, docu- ments concerning wealthy peas- ants and their families facing de- portations from Dnipropetrovsk Region, records about veterans of the Great Patriotic War and memories of those involved into Courts, Guardianship Office for Afghanistan War (1979–1989) Foreign Settlers in South Russia, etc. There are funds of personal Katerynoslav Fiscal Cloth Manu- origin with the documents be- facture etc. longing to the participants of rev- Records concerning religious olutionary events in Katerynoslav institutions’ activity and land- province in 1905–1907 and 1917. ownership, spiritual education, As far as scientific and techni- construction of churches and cal documentation is concerned, descriptions of church property the Archives preserves scientific are preserved in the funds of research papers. Katerynoslav Spiritual Consis- There are documents from the tory. The Katerynoslav Spiritual funds of province, district, re- Administration, Katerynoslav gion, municipal committees of Preobrazhenskyi Cathedral. The the Communist Party of Ukraine church metrical books collection and Komsomol, primary parties of Katerynoslav province with organizations along with Kom- the records of XVIII – XX centu- somol organizations which reveal ries deserves special notice. the truth about altering numbers Records of local state govern- of party members, “purges”, re- mental and administrational pressions among communists in bodies comprise a significant 30-40s of the XX century, about 80 part of XIX – early XX centuries dissident partisan movement funds. during the Great Patriotic War, The State Archives of Region they draw the picture of young cases on repatriated citizens as people involved into Komsomol well as criminal cases of extra- construction work and explora- judicial bodies on the former po- tion of virgin lands, tell about in- litical prisoners, the Department dustry and transport functioning, of Internal Affairs in Dniprope- collective farms and state farms trovsk Region contributed judges in the Region. of conviction in criminal cases The following archival units of dispossession and registration were declassified and became cards on the deported wealthy available: photographs of mem- peasants and their families. bers of the Social-Democratic The major part of citizens refer- and other parties, participants ences to the Archives (over 98 %) of anti-governmental riots and concerns social and legal matters. revolts, funds of separate estab- The bulk of inquiries (about lishments, organizations and en- 30 %) are meant to confirm terprises operating on this terri- dates of birth, marriage, divorce, tory in 1917–1941 (emergency death, nationality and religion. commissions, military enlistment To answer the inquiries regard- offices, departments of working- ing former political prisoners, peasant militia and others) and the Archives uses the registered during temporary Nazi occupa- criminal cases, preserved in the tion (editorials of district news- funds of the Security Department papers, the Dnipropetrovsk City Board of Ukraine in Dnipropetro- Board, Ukrainian University, ru- vsk Region, as well as funds of the ral societies of consumers, pub- Dnipropetrovsk Region Office of lic ownerships, district and rural The letter of boards, land societies), official the prominent newspapers distributed over the chemist, editor- occupied territory (1941–1943), in-chief of the Industrial documents of the Committee on Knowledge the damage accounts, inflicted Library by Nazi invaders together with D. Mendeleyev their accomplices, documents with his own signature. January, of the repatriated citizens, cor- 15, 1900 respondence and letters of the citizens held in Nazi captivity, funds of the authorized coun- cils in religious cults affairs and (1944– 1965) etc. The Security Department Board of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk 8181 Region contributed to the filtered Archives of Ukraine

In the news agency “Bridge-Dnepr” (Dnipropetrovsk) held presentation of the collection of documents “The occupation regime in Dnipropetrovsk Region in chronological certificates of local authorities” with the participation of one of the authors, drafters of the publication, director of the State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region Nina Kystruska. May, 2010

Public Prosecutor, committees of in industry, agriculture, building, controls for labourer and peas- education and culture in Dnipro- ant inspections in the Region, petrovsk Region. regional, municipal and district Among audio documents there levels, the Dnipropetrovsk Re- are recordings of veterans memo- gion Committee of the Com- ries, meetings with Heroes of the munist Party of Ukraine, archive Soviet Union, reports about cel- collection “Documentary mate- ebrations of the 200th years an- rials on deported persons from niversary of the cities of Kryvyi Dnipropetrovsk Region, their Rig (1975) and Dnipropetrovsk families arid special migrants”. (1976), dedicated to Dniprop- The pre-revolution period etrovsk liquidators of Chernobyl comes to life in photo documents disaster (1986), artistic records of – reproductions of pictures origi- folk artists performances, soloists nating from literature and exhib- of the Dnipropetrovsk Opera and its of Dnipropetrovsk National Ballet Theatre, concerts of Sym- Museum of History named after phonic orchestra of Region Phil- D. Yavornitskyi. harmonic Society (1972), scenes 82 Video archives mirrors social featuring dramatic performances and political life, overall growth (1975–1989) etc. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Donetsk Region

Historical Background Th e Donetsk Provincial Archi- val Department of the Donetsk Provincial Executive Commit- tee Presidium was established according to the Decree of the People’s Commissariat Council of Ukraine of January, 3, 1922. Th e Donetsk Provincial Historical Ar- chives was decided to be created in 1924. Th e Donetsk Province as well as the archival institutions of the province was liquidated, and functions of the archives were passed to the Artemivsk, Stalin and Mariupol comprovincial ar-

Address: 12, Prospekt Lahutenka, chival departments in 1925. Donetsk, 83086 Th e Regional Industry Histori- Tel/fax: +380 (62) 305-22-97 cal Archives of Donbas was estab- E-mail: [email protected] Web: dn.archives.gov.ua lished in July, 1929. In September, 1930 the Artemivsk, Stalin and Transport: trolleybus No 2 Mariupol Comprovintial Archi- (to stop “Central Univermag”), tram No 1 val Departments were liquidated (to stop “Prospect Pratsi”) and instead of them the Local Ar- chives Departments were created Reading M–Th 8 am–5 pm; room F 8am – 3.45pm on October, 1, 1930. Th e Stalin hours of operation: Local Archives Division and the Regional Industry Historical Ar- Director: Nadiya Butsenko chives of Donbas were reorgan- ised into the Stalin State Histori- cal Archives in March 1932. Th e Artemivsk and Mariupol Local Archives Departments were reor- ganised into the State Historical Archives. Donetsk Region was established in June 1932. Th e Historical Ar- chives of Donetsk Region was 83 created on the bases of the Stalin Archives of Ukraine

Parish Chronicle of Donetsk Region was renamed of Bogoroditska into the Historical Archives Church in of Stalin Region. Dmytrievka village. Taganrog Archival institutions came un- district. Don’s der the People’s Commissariat Army Region. of Internal Aff airs in November, 1919 1938. Th e Historical Archives of Stalin Region was renamed into the Archives of Stalin Region in the City of Stalino, the Artemivsk State Historical Archives – into the Archives of Stalin Region in the City of Artemivsk, and the Mariupol State Historical Ar- chives – into the Archives of Sta- lin Region in the City of Mariupol according to the Decree of the Main Archival Administration State Historical Archives on Sep- under the People’s Commissariat tember, 29, 1932. Th e Donetsk of Internal Aff airs of the UkSSR Region was divided into Stalin of November, 25, 1938. and Lugansk Regions on June, Part of the archival funds was 3, 1938. Th e Historical Archives evacuated during World War II. Funds returned aft er evacuation The Case on from the Artemivsk and Mariupol celebration in April, 23, Region Archives were transferred 1891, the Day on preservation to the Archives of Millennium since Stalin Region in the City of Stali- the phenomenon no. Th e Artemivsk and Mariupol of Miraculous of Archives were liquidated. St. George the Th e Archives was renamed into Great Martyr and the State Archives of Stalin Region Victorious in 1958. Th e Region archival insti- tutions came under the Province Council of Workers Deputies Ex- ecutive Committee in June, 1960. Th e City of Stalino was renamed into Donetsk City in November, 1961. Th ereby the State Archives of Stalin Region became the State Archives of Donetsk Region in 84 1980 and have the same name in our days. The State Archives of Region

Head of the department of documents storage, stock-taking and defence apparatus Olena Shevchenko in the archives depository

Server for storing of fund use created by way of scanning

Total Volume of Funds Description of Archival 11 052 funds, 1 919 982 collec- Holdings tion items, 1784–2011; Th e Archives preserves docu- 20 750 collection items of scien- ments of the end of the XVIII – tifi c and technical documentation, beginning of ХХ centuries, which 1935–1987; represent political, social and 107 collection items of fi lm doc- economic situation of the mod- uments, 1962–1982; ern territory of Donetsk Region: 14 378 collection items of pho- Bakhmutskiy and Mariupol dis- to documents, 1799, 1830, 1836, tricts of Katerinoslavsk province, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1902, 1905– Slavonic district of the Kharkiv 2002; province, South-East part of 979 collection items of phono- Taganrog (Miuskiy) district of the documents, 1959–1977; Don’s Army Region. Th e earliest 114 collection items of video archival documents are preserved documents, 1991–2007. in the funds of Nobiliary custody (1784), Slavon- Leading Engineer ic gorodnichyi Liliya Tazetdinova (sheriff ), leader working on of the Slavonic creating of fund use for archival district nobility, documents by the 3rd charity way of scanning region of Bakh- mutskyi district churches. Th ere is the 8585 information on Archives of Ukraine

The Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR from 09.07.1954, No 953, “On Introduction of Coeducation in Schools of the Ukrainian SSR”

The Certificate about graduation of the 1st class of Yuzivka 2-Class Brotherhood Parish School. 1916 national composition and popula- terprises, coal mines (1898–1919) tion migration, activity of country contain data on development of courts, industry and agriculture coal, metallurgical, chemical, salt development, level of education industry, and penetration of for- and health protection in the funds eign capital to Russia. Building of city and country self-govern- of Mariupol port is represented ment (1868–1919). in the fund of the Department of Th e Novorosiiskyi society of coal, Mariupol port works (1905–1919). steel and rail production fund, and Th e educational process issues also funds of other joint-stock en- and folk education level at the end of the ХІХ – be- Building of the ginning of ХХ cen- State Archives of tury are represent- Donetsk Region ed in the funds of educational insti- tutions. Th e state of the Orthodox churches, church schools and other issues of religious cults establish- ments activity is 8686 characterised by documents of the The State Archives of Region

3rd charity region of Bakhmutskyi The Order of the Bakhmut Spiritual district churches fund. Board on keeping So-called Revizki fairy-tales of of metric books. Mariupol citizens and Mariupol 1812 district settlements are preserved in the fund of the Mariupol Dis- trict Treasury (1811–1858). Th ere also preserved metrical church books, confessions information, chronicle of Bogoroditska church (1897–1926) of Dmytrivka village of Taganrog district of the Don’s Army Region. Th e period of preparation and conducting of the October Revo- lution is represented in the funds of the executive committees of councils of workers, peasants and soldiers deputies, military and rev- olutionary committees. resented in the funds of province, Organisation and activity issues country, district militia offi ces. of workers’ and peasants’ militia Th e executive committees’ docu- and criminal search on the terri- ments of local councils show the tory of Donetsk Province are rep- process of social, economic and cultural development of the Re- Building of the gion. Organisation of the land State Archives usage, creation of communes and of Donetsk Region. agricultural artels, collectivisation 2012 of agriculture, work of machine and tractor stations and techni- cal repair stations, state farms and collective farms, their technical equipment, liquidation of the “ku- laks” is represented in the funds of councils, committees of poor peas- ants, establishments of agriculture. Th ere are documents on politi- cal prisoners’ rehabilitation, the , making bread pro- visions, party “cleanings”, recon- struction and building of enter- prises in the funds of party and 8787 Komsomol organisations. Archives of Ukraine

The guild list of merchants and their families on Bakhmut town. 1910

Journal of Noble Families’ Tutelage in Bakhmut town. 1794 Th e period of the Nazi occupation of Donetsk Region (1989–2001). of Donetsk Region is presented by Th ere are preserved 34 personal the documents of district and rural funds, 19 collections of documents courts, agricultural societies and la- on Donetsk Region history in the bour exchanges. Archives. Th e documents of institutions Th ere are more than 14 thousands of culture, folk education, science, volumes of historical, regional and health protection, physical culture reference literature, 8202 copies of and sport can tell us about the cul- magazines, 4 531 fi lings of newspa- tural and educational work, guard of pers in the library of the Archives. monuments of history and culture, “Statute-books of the Russian Em- illiteracy liquidation, fi ght against pire” (1842–1916), complete col- homelessness. Activity of religious lection of legitimating of ruling the region institutions is represented in Senate from the second half of the the funds of the Authorised by the ХVІІ century are preserved in the Council of religious aff airs. library fund. Events of striking movement in Th ere are also preserved cine- and Donbas in the 90s of the ХХ cen- video documents about building of tury are preserved in the fund of new factories and mines, activity the Donetsk city miner striking of writers, scientists, artists, great committee. occasions in the regional life; pho- Public and Political movement in no-records of artists and pieces of Donetsk Region in the 90s of the music; photographs of houses, ar- ХХ century is represented in the chitectural monuments of regional 88 documents of political parties, pub- pre-revolution and modern period lic organisations and movements towns, portraits of notables. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Zhytomyr Region

Historical Background The Volyn Province Archival Commission under Public Edu- cation Department subordina- tion was organized in 1920. In 1922 the Archival Commis- sion was liquidated and instead of it the Volyn Archival Province Department under the Province Executive Committee subordi- nation was organized. In 1925 due to three-stage management the Volyn Ar- chival Province Department was reorganized into the Dis- trict Archival Department and

Address: 2/20, Ohrimova Hora Str., in 1932 – into the Zhytomyr Zhytomyr, 10003 (building 1) State Historical Archives. 3, Zamkova Str., After Zhytomyr Region has Zhytomyr, 10003 (building 2) Tel./fax: +380 (412) 42-60-61, been formed, the Archives re- 22-54-45 ceived status as regional archives E-mail: [email protected] in 1938 (with subordination to Web: archive.zt.ua the People’s Commissariat of In- Transport: to the building 1 trolleybus ternal Affairs) and in 1941 it was No 2, 3 (to stop “Olzych Str.”), renamed into the State Archives to the building 2 trolleybus No 2 (to stop “Ploscha Peremohy”) of Zhytomyr Region. In 1958–1980 the Archives was Reading M–F 9.30am–5.00pm officially named as the Zhyto- room hours of operation: myr Regional State Archives and it was subordinated to the Ex- Director: Stanyslav Sinitskyi ecutive Committee of Regional Council (since 1960). Since 1980 it is named as the Zhytomyr Regional State Archives. Total Volume of Funds 8 389 funds, 1 432 666 units of issue (1795–2011); 65 cine documents (1943– 89 2005); Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of The pre-Soviet Zhytomyr Region archival funds (Okhrimova contain the docu- Hora Str.) ments of admin- istrative govern- ment bodies and state establish- ments of Volyn province from the end of the XVIII century to the begin- ning of the 19 110 photo documents (1906– XX century, judicial bodies, estab- 2011); lishments of the Ministry of State 379 audio documents (1960– Property and those of land-tenure 2011); regulations system. 43 video documents (2001– The materials of Volyn finan- 2011). cial and taxes establishments are Description of Archival preserved in the special collection Holdings of the revenue department, tax Documents (1795–2007) are inspectors, regional and provin- preserved in the Archives. cial treasures, excise department, In some special collections there Zhytomyr departments of the are copies of more than 600 units State Bank and those of commer- dated back to the end of the XVI cial banks, Volyn department of to the beginning of the XVIII cen- rural land bank. turies. The records concerning the his- They include the noble privilege tory of the public education devel- (1603) given to Ovruch grandees opment are in the following spe- the Nevmerzhytskyis by the Lith- cial collections: Superintendent uanian Grand Duke Sigizmund, of Volyn province public schools, the files about the nobility of the grammar schools, colleges, teach- Vygovskyi and the Teteray fami- ers seminaries, Jewish college and lies, then files with autographs of Jewish teachers institute, prov- the Polish kings starting from Si- ince Jewish school commission, gizmund I up to Stanislav-August, commercial and land-surveyors the patents given and signed by college, the school of doctor assis- the famous figure of the Polish tants, municipal and high primary national liberation struggle Ta- colleges, Volyn eparchial council deush Kostiushko dated back to etc. Documents of the pre-Soviet 90 1794, the deeds and inventories social institutions and organiza- of estates of the XVIII century etc. tions are preserved in the funds of The State Archives of Region

Charter (1603) of social organizations, Volyn and Polish province land committee, dis- gentry muniment trict commission for elections to (1650) given constituent assembly, province by Polish Kings Sigizmund and principal, state security guards, Yan Kazymir Zhytomyr district temporary land to the liquidation commission. Nevmerzhytskys The documents of the Soviet pe- family, Ovruch boyars riod are represented by the special collections of local government bodies, prosecuting, judicial and military establishments. the Volyn local Russian Red Cross Besides, the special collections Society, the Zhytomyr All-Russia of establishments and enterprises Committee of towns and zemstvs, of industry, agriculture and for- Volyn hop society and insurance. estry are also preserved. The history of the clerical con- The development of public ed- fessions in Volyn is reflected in ucation and culture is reflected the special collections of Vo- in the special collections of Vo- lyn Orthodox, Lutsk-Zhytomyr lyn province, district, munici- Catholic and Bilorus-Lithuanian pal, region departments and in- Union “Uniya” consistories, chan- spectorates of public education, cery of eparchial bishop and cath- secondary and high institutions, olic cathedral capitul, separate professional training estab- churches, cathedrals, monaster- lishments, archives, museums, ies, Jewish religious societies. The Philharmonic Societies, theatres. special collection of the General The materials concerning histo- monasteries and cathedrals vis- ry of medicine and health protec- iting of Lutsk-Zhytomyr epar- tion, social security of inhabitants chies contains visit descriptions are contained in the special col- of the Catholic bodies from the lections of province and district end of the XVIII century to the inspectorates, regional depart- beginning of the XIX century. ment of health protection, hospi- More than 400 of the personal tals, military hospitals and other documentation of the Right-bank medical establishments. Ukraine Uniat Clergy (1748– The documents of Nazi oc- 1795) has been revealed. cupation period of Ukraine The period of the Ukrainian (1941–1945) have been declassi- national liberation struggle of fied: Zhytomyr General Commis- 1917–1920 is reflected in the spe- sariat, hybescommissariats, mu- cial collection of Volyn province nicipal district and rural bodies, commissar, Zhytomyr munici- Zhytomyr criminal investigation 9191 pal executive committee council department and police of order, Archives of Ukraine

Record of As to the special collection of Honorå de Balzac the personal origin, the most in- marriage teresting are documents about famous public fi gures and Maece- nas – baron de-Shoduar’s family, governor O. Kutaysov, historian, regional ethnographer, archivist P. Abramovych, Ukrainian well- known botanist and traveller, president of All-Ukrainian Acade- my of Science V. Lypskyi (personal documents). Th e special collection of the ex- ecutive committees of regional, municipal, district, settlement and village soviets of People’s Depu- ties, collective and state farms, ag- ricultural cooperatives, Zhytomyr regional commission for calcula- Central bureau of “folksdeutch” tion of losses caused by fascist oc- registration. The materials of the cupants during the period of the census conducted by the Nazi oc- Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, cupation boards in September, repatriation department of the 1941 are preserved in Zhytomyr regional executive committee, the regional fund. Department of Security Service of Ukraine in Zhytomyr Region Family register (archival units of issue of the citi- of the baron de Chaudoirs, zens subjected to the repressions, Volyn scholars fi ltration records for the citizens and public forcedly taken to Germany for figures labour during the Great Patri- otic War), regional, municipal and district committees of CPU, especially in which documents about starvation in Ukraine in 1932–1933 are represented and used for reference to defend rights and satisfy social requirements of citizens, including the documents of Komsomol authorities, region- al, municipal, district establish- 92 ments, organizations, enterprises of industry and agriculture. The State Archives of Region

Culture and Science Information Centre of the Hungarian Republic. Director of the State Archives of Zhytomyr Region Stanyslav Sinitskyi is among participants of the roundtable during the unveiling of the exhibition “ stories. Architector A. S. Kaminskyi” dedicated to his 180th birth anniversary where were exhibited digital copies of documents concerning the gifted architect’s family (1623–1845) preserved in the funds of the State Archives of Zhytomyr Region. Moscow. December 9, 2010 The most interest is shown for Zhytomyr State Space Museum the parts: “Building, architecture”, (1977), the greeting to Zhyto- “Towns and populated areas”, myr residents on the occasion which contain reproductions and of Cosmonautics Day from the original photos of the towns such “Soyuz II T” spaceship crew as Zhytomyr, , Novo- (1984) are unique. grad-Volynskyi, separate build- The collection of film and vid- ings and architecture monuments, eo documents is presented by series of drawings by the painter amateur films dedicated to an- Sestro de-Lautoriken on which niversaries, ecologic problems, Zhytomyr of 1880s is portrayed. events of culture and art life of As to the photo documents of the the Region. Among them are Soviet period the unique photos films: “Prometheus’s daughter”, of Zhytomyr and other regional on the celebration of the 100th towns of 1920–1930s and post- anniversary of Lesya Ukrainka war rebuilding of 1950–1960s are (1971), “Unveiling the monu- preserved in the Archives. ment to S. Korolyov in Zhyto- Recollections about famous sci- myr” (1972), “Celebration of the entist and designer S. Korolyov by 1100th anniversary of Zhytomyr” his mother M. Balanina-Korolyo- (1994), “Festive handing of Tora va and by the space pilot O. Le- to Zhytomyr Jewish religious so- onov when the monument to Ko- ciety” (2004), “Celebration of the rolyov was being unveiled (1972), 14th anniversary of Ukraine’s In- 93 records of “Korolyov readings” in dependence in Zhytomyr” (2005). Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Transcarpathian Region

Historical Background During 1919–1939 the Local Ar- chives of Podkarpatska Russ have been worked in Transcarpathia. On November, 6, 1945 the Peo- ple’s Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine adopted the Resolution of formation of the Central State His- torical Archives of Transcarpath- ian Ukraine and compilation of the Archives. It was created on the ba- sis of former Committee Archives and documents, which were accu- mulated in diff erent institutions of Transcarpathia. Aft er the forma- tion of Transcarpathian Region as Address: 14a, Mynaiska Str., the part of Ukraine in 1946, the Uzhorod, 88018 (building 1) Archives got the name the Regional 4, Heroiv Square, State Archives of Transcarpathia. Beregove, 90200 (building 2) Tel. (03122) 2-35-49, From 1945 till 1954 the Archives Fax. (03122) 2-58-39 (building 1) were located in Uzhgorod and in Tel: (0241) 2-32-10 (building 2) 1953 were moved to the Town of E-mail: [email protected] (building 1) Beregovo, where the documents E-mail: [email protected] for the period from XIV century (building 2) till 1945 are focused. From 1989 it Web: dazo.gov.ua has got the name the State Archives Transport: Archives are situated of Transcarpathian Region. In 1991 not far from the railway the documents and premises of the and bus stations. Party Archives of the Transcarpath- Reading M–Th 9am–6pm ian Regional Committee Commu- room hours nist Party of Ukraine were given to of operation: the Archives. Director: Mykhailo Misiuk Total Volume of Funds 5 054 funds, 1 370 529 units of collection (16 027 linear meters) for the period of 1391–2006; 1 624 units collection of science- 9494 technical documents for the period of 1948–1987; The State Archives of Region

1 140 units collection of photo Unveiling of the documents for the period of 1918– joint exhibition of 1998. the State Archives Description of Archival of Transcarpathian Holdings Region and Transcarpathian Th e documents till 1946, which Hungarian Institute are kept in the Town of Beregovo, at Ferenc Rakotsi II refl ect the historical past of the Re- “Arms and seals of gion at the times of its being a part of towns and villages of Transcarpathia” other states. Th e fi rst original docu- ment is dated back to XIV century. Diplomas of European monarchs from the XV–XVI centuries have been preserved. In the funds of the Hungarian and Austro-Hungarian period of dominion there are documentary collections of over districts and un- the Habsburgs under the leadership der-districts (nadzhupany and pid- of Ferents Rakotsi II (1703–1711). zhupany) of Berezhska, Uhochanska Th e documents of Urbarial Court’s and Uzhska districts (zhup), courts fund refl ected the complex process of districts (zhups) and noblemen’s of Urbarial reform in period of rul- court, landowners (latyfundii) of the ing the ’s empress Shonborn dynasty and so on. In the Maria Tereziya (1740–1780) and funds of over-districts and under- districts such groups of documents Building of the State Archives are being kept: the king’s deeds to of Transcarpathian the rights noblemen, originals and Region copies the records of sittings from the national meetings in the Town of Pozhonj (now ) and three committees, texts of laws, ratifi ed by these meetings, decisions of the King’s councils in disputable ques- tions, accounts about the collection of king’s taxes and so-called “de- syatyna”, documents about the up- rising under the leadership of Imre Tekeli (1678–1688), agreements about the armistice with the Aus- trian government (1679). A consid- erable amount of documents char- 9595 acterises the Liberation War against Archives of Ukraine

Unveiling of the M. Luchkai, I. Sil- joint exhibition vai, A. Kralytsky, of archival documents V. Dovhovych , S. Pav- dedicated to the lovych, O. Mytrak are 80th anniversary kept. Data about the of the revival outstanding fi gures of of Orthodoxy in Transcarpathia Russia and Ukraine-na- and the 100th tives of Transcarpathia: anniversary of Ju. Venelin-Hutsu, A. Deshko, I. Zeikan Basil (Pronin) and others are being preserved. Th e most ancient liquidation of serfs’ dependence by documents of the fund the emperor Frantz Josyph II (1780– “Th e archive of fi ve crown towns” 1790). witness that cities and towns led In funds of board Mukachiv the persistent struggle for preser- Greek-Catholic Eparchy (diocese) vation of their medieval rights. and Mukachiv Friary Fathers Basyl- In the funds of the Archives there ian, there is an information about are many documents that contain monasteries’ possessions, about pre- information about the events of sentation of villages to monastery, , the stay of the Rus- about activity of other monasteries, sian Army on the territory of our about opening the schools, instruc- land etc. tions concerning limitation of us- In the documents of the Local age the Slavonic language in church (Zemskyi) government funds, of schools and business matters of dio- synopses of agricultural and school cese, an attempt to replace the Sla- inspectors, public prosecutor’s of- vonic alphabet with Latin one, visi- fi ces, regional courts during the tation of schools. period of stay in the part of the Quite a number of instructive Czechoslovak Republic (1919– documents have been preserved as 1939), the social-political, eco- to introduction of the union, the nomical and cultural life in Trans- chasing and banning of orthodoxy, carpathia has been elucidated. separate evidences about the activ- Th ere are documents there ity of Roman-Catholic, Protestant, about the formation and activity Judaic confessions and some sec- of political parties, cultural asso- tarian associations. ciations and unions. A number of In the above mentioned funds, documentary collections contain documents that concern the ac- information about the ownership tivity of people’s awakeners (call- of lands and woods, lands recla- 9696 ers) and outstanding writers of the mation. Projects, plans and esti- XIX century: O. Dukhnovych, mates on the erection of electric The State Archives of Region

Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I give the right to the bishop of Mukachevo Greek-Catholic diocese V. Popovych to wear titular church sign in 1862 and give him permission for canon law the diocese. November, 16, 1867 power stations, bridges and roads, Ukraine, about the activity of the schools, state and cultural institu- President A. Voloshyn and others. tions, statistical data on schools, Th e documents of the funds of clubs, reading rooms, theatres, and Horthy Regime bodies (regent organization of tourism and devel- commissariat), district institu- opment of commerce have been tions, local committees (zhupni) preserved. reveal policy of the Hungarian A great number of documents Government in Transcarpathia in refl ect the struggle of Transcarpa- the years of our land’s occupation tions for the reunion with Ukraine (1939–1944), the persecution of and clarify the conditions that pre- peaceful inhabitants for political vented to its realization. convictions, unmotivated repres- In the documents of the Carpath- sions, exporting the population to ian-Ukraine period (November, concentration camps of Germany 1938 – March, 1939) there is the and to so-called working camps information about the fi rst steps of Hungary. Few documents elu- of the Government in organization cidate the activity of partisan de- of industrial and communication tachments under the command of works, about the elections to the O. Tkanko, I. Pryshchepa, D. Usta, 9797 Senate (Seim) of the Carpathian V. Rusyn and others. Archives of Ukraine

Reading-room Th e events of fi rst of the State post-war years have Archives of been registered in Transcarpathian Region documents of the funds of the Trans- carpathian People’s Council, its repre- sentatives, regional, local and village people’s commit- tees. Mandates and certifi cates to del- egates of the I Con- gress of People’s Committees of Transcarpathian collective and state farms, primary Ukraine that was held in Mukache- party organizations, where the doc- vo on November, 26, 1944 and ad- uments about development of in- opted the Manifesto about reunion dustry, agriculture, education, sci- of Transcarpathian Ukraine with ence, culture, health protection etc. the Soviet Ukraine were preserved. Th e funds of personal origin at- Among the documents one can fi nd tract our attention: nobleman’s those containing information about family of Prybeks (1346–1900), the activity of the Czechoslovak baron’s family of Perenyi (1400– Administration in 1944 on the ter- 1944), count’s family of Shenborns ritory of region. (1721–1944), nobleman’s family of Th e most considerable for their Ruzhaks (1646–1848). Here you amount and important for their can also fi nd the personal funds of plot, the funds of the Soviet and recent times – A. Kruglyakov, the party institutions, organizations participant of Transcarpathia’s lib- and enterprises for 1946–1991 are eration in 1944; M. Lyalko – the preserved in Uzhgorod: funds of offi cer of Czechoslovak corps of Transcarpathian regional executive L. Svoboda in the years of the World committee, its departments, Re- War II; the former leader of Home gional Committee the Communist Forces Board of our region D. Pop- Party of Ukraine, local committees ovych; the well-known political and and district committees the Com- public fi gure of Transcarpathia – munist Party of Ukraine, local ex- V. Rusyn; the leader of partisan ecutive committees, district execu- formation, state political fi gure tive committees, regional creative the post-war Transcarpathia and union, institutions of planning, Ukraine in whole, I. Sarvady; the statistics, professional unions, fi - participant the historic events of 98 nancial body, industrial enterprises, 1938–1939, professor, doctor of executive institutions of agriculture, Historic Sciences M. Troyan. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Zaporizhzhya Region

Historical Background Zaporizhzhya – a regional centre (till 1921 named Oleksandrivs’k) was founded in 1770 on the ground of one of the fortresses of the Dnipro fortifi- cation line. In 1806 Oleksandrivs’k be- came a povit centre. In the XIX – early XX centuries the territory of the contemporary Zaporizhzhya Region consisted of Oleksandrivs’k povit Kat- erynoslav Guberniya, and Berdiansk povits of Tawry- da Guberniya.

Address: 48, Ukrainska Str., The development of archival Zaporizhzhya, 69095 activity in Zaporizhzhya is as- (building 1) sociated with the name of Yakiv 162 b, Lenin Ave., Zaporizhzhya, 69107 Novytskyi – a famous research- (building 2) er of local lore, ethnographer Tel.: +380(612) 62-11-21, and historian. He was an active 62-14-21 Fax: +380(612) 62–24–31 member of Katerynoslav Guber- E-mail: [email protected] niya scientific archival commis- Web: archivzp.gov.ua sion (1903–1916). In 1921 he

Transport: Archives is situated became a head of the museum not far from railway section of the Zaporizhzhya Gu- and bus stations berniya department of public

Reading M–Th 8am – 5pm, education with a depository of room Fr 8am – 3.45hm archival documents. In 1922 he hours of operation: became head of the guberniya

Director: Olexandr Tedyeyev archival department. The major stages of archival activity development: – August – December, 1922 – the Zaporizhzhya Guberniya Archival Department; – August, 1925 – September, 99 1930 – the Zaporizhzhya and Archives of Ukraine

Documents of the People’s Commissariat of of commercial Internal Affairs) of UkSSR (the and industrial enterprises of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Re- Oleksandrivs’k. public) in Zaporizhzhya Region. The early ÕÕ In accordance with the “Regula- century tions on the State Archival Fund” of the Soviet Union of March, 29, 1941 the Archives was given the new name – the State Archives of Zaporizhzhya Region. During the Great Patriotic War (1941–1944) the State Archive of Zaporizhzhya Region and its Melitopol branch temporarily stopped their activity because of the occupation by fascist Ger- many. Following liberation of the Melitopol Okrug Archival De- Region the Archives renewed its partments with archival reposi- activity on collection and pres- tories; ervation of documents about the – September, 1930 – February, regional history. 1932 – Zaporizhzhya and Meli- During the post-war period the topol local archival departments; Archives underwent the follow- – February, 1932 – January, ing changes: 1939 – the Zaporizhzhya and – July, 1960 – was transferred Melitopol State Historical Ar- from the Ministry of Internal Af- chives subordinated to the Dni- fairs of the UkRSR to the Archi- propetrovsk Regional Archival val department of the Executive Department. Committee of the Zaporizhzhya After establishment of Zapori- Regional Council; zhzhya Region on the of Janu- Construction ary, 10, 1939, the Zaporizhzhya of the Dnipro State Historical Archives was hydroelectric station named reorganized into the Zaporizh- after V. Lenin zhya Regional State Archives, (1927–1932) but Melitopol became a branch subordinated to Zaporizhzhya Regional Archival Department of the Regional Executive Commit- tee. In April, 1939, the Regional – November, 1988 – the Archi- Archival Department was reorga- val Department of the Executive 100100 nized into the Archival Depart- Committee of the Zaporizhzhya ment of UNKVS (the Department Regional Government was liq- The State Archives of Region uidated and its functions were Building of the delegated to the State Regional State Archives Archives; of Zaporizhzhya – September, 1991 – funds of Region the former Party Archives of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Commit- tee of the Communist Party of Ukraine were transferred to the State Regional Archives. At present the State Regional Archives is a structural depart- 495 units of video documenta- ment of the Zaporizhzhya Re- tion stored for 1960–1985; gional State Administration. It 50 419 units of photo docu- is controlled by the Head of the mentation stored for 1917–2011; Zaporizhzhya Regional State Ad- 630 units of phonic documen- ministration and the State Archi- tation stored for 1960–1990. val Committee of Ukraine. Description of Archival Total Volume of Funds Holdings 7 812 archival funds, 2 009 748 The development of the Archi- units of documentation stored val activity in Zaporizhzhya Re- (36 447 p.m.) for the years 1774– gion in the end of XVIII – early 2011; XX centuries was associated 4 582 units of scientific and with the transformation of the technical documentation stored archival system of the Russian for 1934–1980; Empire, which at that time in- cluded the territory of contem- porary Ukraine. Order on the As the result of activity of vari- opening of the infirmary in the ous departments and institu- building of the tions numerous documents were gymnasium. 1919 created which were deposited in department’s archives. The documents of Olek- sandrivs’k local self-govern- ment, financial, court and other secular institutions as well as archival materials of spiritual departments form the basis of the archival collection of the Tsarist Russia period. They in- clude data about the settlement of contemporary Zaporizhzhya 101101 Region territory by Ukrainian Archives of Ukraine

Cossacks, serfs and state peas- For example, the census of the ants from other areas of Ukraine inhabitants residing in Mari- and Russia as well as settlement upol Greek okrug settlements is of , Bulgarians, , one of the major sources for the Greeks etc. in the Zaporizhzhya study of Greek colonization his- steppes. tory of the South Ukraine in the Among the oldest documents XIX century. of the Archive are books of The most valuable documents birth records of spiritual de- of the pre-revolutionary col- partments, the first of which lections are of Oleksandrivs’k is of Oleksandrivs’k fortress Town Council. They illuminate church (later – the Cathedral establishment and development of Intercession) during the pe- of industry, trade, education, riod of 1774–1788. Of consid- medicine, composition and mi- erable interest for researchers gration of inhabitants, develop- are documents of Orthodox, ment and condition of the mu- Lutheran and Catholic church- nicipal economy (architectural es, Protestant meeting houses, designs of private and public , mosque as well as buildings, water supply system, data of censuses (1811–1858) materials about introduction which include information of electric lighting, telephone about the ethnic composition communication, automobile and migration of the multi- traffic etc.) national population of contem- The collections of depart- porary Zaporizhzhya Region. ments of supervision over facto- N. Makhno – the ries and plants reflect the state rebel leader of the of industry in Zaporizhzhya peasant movement Region as well as legal and eco- in the South of nomic condition of workers. Ukraine in the 1920s Among them we should men- tion collections of such famous Oleksandrivs’k plants as “Lepp and Valmann”, “Kopp”, “Kopp and Gelker” and “Bormann and

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Schvede”. On their ba- Map of sis “Kommunar” agri- Oleksandrivs’kyi cultural machine plant castle was founded in the 1920s. The first Soviet grain combine was cre- ated there. In the collection of Oleksandrivs’k zem- stvo council one can find interesting docu- ments about famous people of the Rus- sian Empire such as M. Korf – prominent Russian . Among historical documents of the Ar- chive there are entries of birth of prominent historical personali- ties, such as N. Makh- no – a leader of the rebel peasant est in Europe – V. Lenin Dnipro movement in South Ukraine in hydro-electric station – and for- the 1920s; D. Dontsov (1883– mation on its basis of the Dnipro 1973) – an ideologist of Ukrai- complex of ferrous and non-fer- nian nationalism and writer; rous metallurgical and engineer- P. Osypenko (1905–1939) – a ing plants. Documents about the prominent soviet pilot and Hero Dniprobud help to reconstruct of the Soviet Union. the history of the transforma- The documents about causes, tion of the once provincial city course and consequences of the into “the Large Zaporizhzhya” Famine in 1921–1923, 1932– socialist centre (designs, maps of 1933, 1946–1947 in Ukraine are the city development, shorthand mainly concentrated in collec- reports of technical and produc- tions of the Communist Party tion meetings etc.). The Archives and the soviet bodies. preserves collections of docu- The archival materials of the ments of industrial enterprises Administration of the Dnipro which created the basis of Za- State Construction Company porizhzhya industrial complex: (Dniprobud) (1927–1934) pres- Zaporizhstal, Dniprospetstal, ent in detail the construction Dnipro Aluminium and Coke 103103 and commissioning of the larg- Plants etc. Archives of Ukraine

The events of the Nazi occu- Region in post-war period: the pation in Zaporizhzhya Region, construction of the Kakhov- 1941–1944, are reflected in the ka storage lake, Dniproges II, documents of city, district and unique energy complex of Za- village administrations, Zapori- porizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant zhzhya City Comissariat, agri- and Zaporizhzhya State Region- cultural communities and news- al Heat Power Plant which are papers which were published by among the largest in Europe; the occupation authorities. The operation of “Motor-Sich” Public activity of the resistance move- Joint-Stock Company, which is ment in the region territory is famous around the world for its mainly reflected in materials of air engines, “ZAZ” Joint-Stock the party organs. Company (former “Kommunar” Among the recent archival ar- factory) – a leader of Ukrainian rivals of special significance are automobile industry, at which the documents from the collec- the first soviet “Zaporozhets” tion “The Department of the Se- mini car was manufactured. curity Service of Zaporizhzhya The Archives has 60 collections Region” (1919–1951) which in- of personal origin. Among them clude archival-investigatory files are documents of Y. Novytskyi – of people repressed by extraju- ethnographer, historian, archae- dicial organs, filtration files of ologist, corresponding member people repatriated from Germa- of the Ukrainian Academy of Sci- ny after the end of World War II ences; V. Fomenko – a researcher and German cards for Soviet war of local lore, author of essays, prisoners. reviews and articles on history The Archives is rich in docu- of South Ukraine; M. Kytsenko – ments about national economic journalist, party and state fig- development in Zaporizhzhya ure, one of the organizers of the State Historical Publications of the State and Cultural Archives of Cossack Re- Zaporizhzhya serve on Khor- Region tytsia island; T. Neshcheret – an honoured ac- tress of Ukraine, member of the Writers Union and the Union of the The- 104104 atre Workers of Ukraine etc. The State Archives of Region

The State Archive of Ivano–Frankivsk Region

Historical Background Before 1939 there were no state archives in Stanislaviv (known after 1962 as Ivano-Frankivsk) Region. After the reunifica- tion of West Ukraine with the UkSSR an archival department was created within the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Region of Stanislaviv, and in Decem- ber, 1939 the Stanislaviv Region State Historical Archive began operating. From 1941, it was known as the State Archive of the Region of Stanislaviv, from 1941 to 1980 – Stanislaviv (after

Address: 42a, Sahaidachnogo Str., 1962 – Ivano-Frankivsk) Region Ivano-Frankivsk, 76007 State Archive, and since 1980, Tel: +380 (342) 4-90-77, it is known as the State Archive 6-38-16, 6-34-03 E-mail: [email protected] of Ivano-Frankivsk Region. The Web: daifo.if.gov.ua Archives was responsible to the Archival Branch of the Regional Transport: Minibus No 67 (to stop “Maksymovych Str.”) Administration of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Af- Reading M – Th 8 am–5 pm fairs of the NKVD (after 1946 – room F 8 am–4 pm hours of operation: the Ministry of Internal Affairs) of Stanislaviv Region, after 1960 Director: Igor Grynyk to the Archival Department of the Executive Committee of the Stanislaviv (after 1962 – Ivano- Frankivsk) Regional People’s Deputies Council, after 1988 to the Executive Committee of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region People’s Deputies Council, and since 1995 – to the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration. The State Archives of Ivano- 105105 Frankivsk Region manages Archives of Ukraine

19 city-regional archives (since ita (1752–1772), in the Austrian 1992 – the archival branch of the Empire (after 1867 – the Austro- regional state administrations Hungarian Empire) from 1772 to and city councils). 1918), in Poland (1919–1939), Total Volume of Funds from periods of its temporary 3 579 funds, 742 466 preserva- occupation by Russia in World tion units from the years 1752 to War I and by Germany in World 2011; War II, also as a part of the Stan- 44 preservation units of the sci- islaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) Region entifically-technical documenta- after the reunification of West tion from the years 1960 to 1976; Ukraine with the UkSSR (1939– 34 915 preservation units of the 1991), as well as a part of inde- photo documents from the years pendent Ukraine (1991–2012). 1945 to 1990; Among the Archives’ sources are 83 preservation units of pho- many documents on the history no-documents from 1947 and of not only the Ukrainian na- 1960 to 1990. tion, but also the representatives Description of Archival of other nationalities that have Holdings been living in the lands of West The Archives preserves docu- Ukraine. ments about the history of the Documents on the history of West Ukrainian People’s Re- the West Ukrainian People’s Re- public (ZUNR, 1918–1919) and public (ZUNR) are collected in about West Ukrainian territo- separate funds for that period – ries in the Polish Rzech Pospol- those of the Chief Command Reading-hall of of the Ukrainian Army of Galy- the State Archives chyna, in the collection of docu- of Ivano-Frankivsk ments on the history of the edu- Region cation, and also in other funds and in the library of the Archives. As well, the Archives contains the fund of the Administration 106106 of the Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian People’s Repub- The State Archives of Region lic (UNR) Army. Sources in the Posters of the period of the West so-called social block, including Ukrainian People’s the funds of courts, prosecution, Republic police, 25 funds of Ukrainian, 44 Polish and 1 Jewish social or- ganizations shed light upon the social and political state of the Region. Among the documents of this block there are an exten- sive number of sources about the history of the Ukrainian national liberation movement. Pre-1939 governing bodies and authorities are represented by the funds of the supreme authorities in the Polish Voievodstvo – the Stanislaviv Voievodstvo Ad- ministration (1921–1939), po- vit administrations operating in the Austrian and Polish periods (1893–1939) and governing bod- ies of the temporary Russian oc- cupation during World War I. The police funds include the block of police organizations of World War I and Polish peri- ods, among them the Stanislaviv Voievodstvo Police Administra- tion, 13 district police adminis- trations, Stanislaviv city police station and police offices. Ju- dicial matters are represented in the funds of the Shliakhta (noblemen) Court in Stanisla- viv (1792–1856), 2 magistrate courts (1790–1867), 9 Domini- can courts (1830–1855), the Stanislaviv and dis- riod (1863–1918), 3 prosecution trict courts (1879–1939), 18 local offices of the district courts in courts (1877–1939) and 25 city the Polish period, 32 funds of the courts (1928–1939), the Stani- defending attorneys (1907–1939) slaviv city public prosecuting at- and 18 funds of public notaries 107107 torney office of the Austrian pe- (1873–1939). Among this block Archives of Ukraine

Posters of the nealogic documents etc. Th e funds period of the West of self-governing bodies include Ukrainian People’s documents of the Temporary de- Republic partment of self-government in Lviv (1920–1927), povit depart- ments (1884–1913, 1919–1939) and various city and village com- munities, magistrates, and gmina administrations. Information on the state of in- dustry, agriculture, trade, banking, agrarian relations, and processes of land division agreements, deci- sions on land ownership, on strike movements, unemployment, and population migration is fund in the documents of 67 institutions representing almost every aspect of economy. Sources on the history of edu- cation are contained either in the funds of educational administra- tions – the Stanislaviv and Kolo- myia school inspectorates (1908– 1939), 4 district school councils (1881–1933), and the state exami- nation commission for approval of primary schoolteachers, or in the funds of educational institutions – 9 teachers seminaries (1873– 1938), 26 gymnasiums of 1785– 1939, 2 lyceums (1913, 1939), and 53 public schools (1861–1939). Th e funds of religious institu- tions are among the most ancient sources in the Archives. Among them there is a collection of church birth registers from (east- of funds, beside materials deal- ern rite) churches, Roman-Catho- ing with criminal matters, there lic churches and synagogues of the are legal documents about the re- Stanislaviv Voievodstvo (1752– 108108 solving of problems concerning 1938), documents of the Kolomyia property and family relations, ge- Roman Catholic Deanery (1769– The State Archives of Region

West Ukrainian that operated during that period, People’s Republic. and includes collections of docu- 1918–1923. ments issued during World War Documents II, and those of the review pro- and materials. Volumes 1-5. cesses of citizens that returned Ivano-Frankivsk. from compulsory work in Ger- 2001–2011 many, and criminal proceedings of rehabilitated persons. The funds of the Soviet period include the documents of local authorities, justice, court and prosecution institutions, election commissions for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR and the Ukrainian Soviet Social- ist Republic, local councils of people’s deputies; also, of orga- nizations, economic enterprises (industry, agriculture, finance, trade, consumers cooperation, municipal economy, transport, communication, and institutions of statistical and state review), cultural and educational estab- 1938) and the Stanislaviv Greek lishments, health care institu- Catholic Consistory (1788–1944). tions and hospitals, social secu- As well, the archive also has rity establishments and social separate funds from Stanislaviv, organizations. The most impor- Kolomyia, , Kniahynyn, The Decree of Otynia, and Jewish reli- the Ukrainian gious communities. National Council In 2005, the “Collection of in- from January, 3, 1919 on the formational; materials for the union of the population” was created. It in- West Ukrainian cludes 495 posters, announce- People’s ments, wall gazettes and other Republic and the Ukrainian propagandistic material from People’s 1875–1944. Republic A group of funds from the pe- riod of the Nazi occupation of Stanislaviv Region (1941–1944) sheds light on the enterprises, es- 109109 tablishments and organizations Archives of Ukraine

Fund depositary of the State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Region

tant among them are the funds somol). The fund of the region of executive committees of the committee of the CPU is a ma- region, city, village and hamlet jor resource for researching the councils of people’s deputies. history of the Region during the Information about the religious Soviet period, because its docu- situation in the Region is found ments provide the most complete in documents of the representa- impression of the party’s policy tives of the Council of religious toward West Ukrainian lands: cult affairs and the Council of the struggle against the Organi- the Orthodox Church affairs zation of Ukrainian Nationalists to the Council of Ministers of (OUN) and Ukrainian Rebellion the UkSSR in Ivano-Frankivsk Army (URA), mass deportations Region. of the population, confiscation Funds of community organiza- of village property, compul- tions (1939–1991) were trans- sory collectivization, compul- ferred to the Archives in 1991 sory grain gathering campaigns, from the Archives of Ivano- mass socio-political processes Frankivsk Regional Commit- of 1989 through the 1990s etc. tee of the Communist Party of The Archives preserves also the Ukraine. Most of these are docu- personal funds of S. Paslavskyi, ments of region, district and city V. Hrabovetskyi, Y. Melnychuk, committees of the Communist V. Moroziuk, P. Trybun, O. Svi- 110110 Party of Ukraine, and commu- etlanov, K. Kogutiak, of the first nist youth organizations (Kom- archivists, and others. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Kyiv Region

Historical Background The State Archives of Kyiv Re- gion was founded on 29th of May in 1922 as the Kyiv Central His- torical Archives. Exactly this date on May, 29 in 1922 to the last time and was considered a day birth of the Re- cord Office of Kyiv Region. How- ever according to the recently educed documents the Archives existed from 1782. In 1932, since Kyiv Region was formed, the Kyiv Central Historical Archives was trans- formed to the Kyiv Region His-

Address: 38-40, Melnikova Str. , torical Archives (the funds of the Kyiv, 04119 Kyiv Central Historical Archives Tel.: +380 (44) 206-74-99 and the Kyiv Regional Archival Fax: +380 (44) 483-23-60 E-mail: [email protected] Administration were joined). Web: archives.kiev.ua The Kyiv Regional Historical Archives was submitted to the Transport: trolleybus No 19, 23, (to stop “Motar–Works”) Archival Administration of the metro (to station “Lukyanivska”) Executive Committee of Kyiv Re- gion. In 1939 the Kyiv Regional Reading M–Th 9 am–5 pm, room F. 9 am – 4 pm Historical Archives was submit- hours of operation: ted by the Archival Department of NKVD of the UkSSR (the Director: Sofi ya Kameneva People Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR). During of World War II on July, 1941 300 most important funds (43405 files) were evacuated. But the rest leaving one in Kyiv were included in the Kyiv Re- gional Historical Archive (period of Nazi occupation of Kyiv). The most part of these documents 111 were taken out to Germany. Archives of Ukraine

Building of the Archives. al subdivision of the Kyiv Region- 38, Melnikova Str. al Government Administration and submits to the Head of the Regional Government Admin- istration and the Main Archival Administration of Ukraine. Total Volume of Funds 7 046 funds, 22 701 lists, 2 422 721 collection items (1682–2010); 20 976 collection items of photo documents (1916–2010). Description of Archival Holdings The Archives’ documents of the period from 1682 to 2010 reflect the political, economical and cul- tural life of Kyiv City and Kyiv The Kyiv Regional Historical Region. Archives was renewed on Novem- The Archives’ funds have the ber, 8, 1943. Senate’s orders, instructions on On March, 1944 the part of the administrative-territorial funds of the Kyiv Regional His- change, social structure of popu- torical Archives (documents of lation, putting into effect the re- the establishments, which activi- forms in the XIX century. The ties were outside of Kyiv Region) most ancient document is the were given to the Central State Order of the Hetman Ivan Sam- Building of the Historical Archives of the UkSSR Archives. (it was founded on January, 1944). 40, Melnikova Str. In 1958 the Archives was re- named to the Kyiv Regional State Archives. In 1960 it was submitted to the Main Archival Administra- tion of the Council of Ministers of the UkSSR. Since 1980 the Ar- chives has been the State Archives of Kyiv Region. According to the Regulations on the State Archives of Kyiv Re- gion, which was approved by the direction of the Head of the Kyiv Regional Government Adminis- 112112 tration No 508 on September, 19, 2000, the Archives is the structur- The State Archives of Region oylovych issuing him in Baturin File about on May, 21, 1682 to the Beylis. 1912 Pavlovskyi about taking the oath of his regiment to the Tsar Petro Oleksievych (saved in the file about nobility Pavlovskie). Funds of the Office of Kyiv Gov- ernor, the Guberniya Administra- tion, the Guberniya Statistical Committee, the Guberniya Land Administration, the Kyiv control chamber, guberniya building and highways commissions consists of such documents, which say about the development of industry opening factories and fabrics, for example, South Russian machine building (1862), Gretera and of Bogdan Khmelniskyi in Kyiv Krivaneka (1880), iron and mien (80s XIX century). The funds of foundry “Motor” (1904), Demi- Kyiv Guberniya Statistical Com- yvskyi brickworks (1908), about mittee and management of peo- the forming the Association of ple’s schools of Kyiv Guberniya the shipping on the Dnepr river have the documents about activi- (1838), building plan of the navi- ties of educational institutions, gation landing stage in the Kyiv for example, the Order (copy) of (1842), building of the monument Alexander I about Kyiv gymnasi- ums and schools in the povits of Genealogical the Kyiv Guberniya (new educa- book of tional system from of 1812). noblemen The funds of the Procurator of Kyiv of Kyiv Guberniya, Kyiv district guberniya. 1885–1895 court, prison inspection etc. have many documents about peasants struggle against serfdom, prepa- ration and conduction of the re- form in 1861, Stolypin’s agrarian reform (1907–1910), files about Stolipin’s murder, about demon- stration in the memory days of T. Shevchenko and L. Tolstoi (1913–1914) etc. The funds “Maps and drawings 113113 collection” (1782–1919) contain Archives of Ukraine

File on murder of Stolypin. 1911

maps and plans of the commu- owners the Kamenskyis, P. Pocel- nications, povits, some towns, uev, V. Synaiyskyi and collection of villages of Kyiv, Podilsk, Poltava personal cards of offi cials. guberniyas. Near 20 funds refl ected diff er- Among the personal funds there ent steps of the struggle for the are documents of M. Berlinskyi, Ukrainian independent state V. Demchenko, P. Zgandr, land- (1917–1920). Th e funds of the Soviet period Noblemen save the documents of local ad- Balichevsky’s coat of arms Ravich ministrations of the Soviet regime. Th ere are fi les about the national- ization of factories (1921–1922), in- dustrial building works (1927), col- lectivization and collective farms in Kyiv Region (1930), foundation of diff erent museums and institutions (1925–1930) etc. About 400 funds tell about the period of the Nazi occupation in Kyiv City and Kyiv Region in World War II. Th ere are “Kyiv General- 114 commissariat”, “Kyiv Shtadtcom- missariat”, “Museum-Archives” of The State Archives of Region the transitional period of Kyiv City Many funds of industrial works, administrations. local administrations, judicial and Some funds characterize the notarial establishments, fi les of re- post-war period. Th ere one can patriates from Germany collection fi nd the data on economical condi- are used for the Archives informa- tion of Kyiv Region aft er its libera- tion work. tion from Nazis, on restoration and Among of the photo-documents, development of industry, transport, which are saved in the Archives, agriculture, establishments of cul- there are photos of Ukrainian writ- ture, education and health services. er O. Korniychuk, people’s painter Th e Archives contains person- G. Veres, commander of partisan al funds, which were dated aft er formation S. Kovpak, member 1917. Th ere are documents of of the crew of cruiser “Varyag” D. Beling, S. Veselovskyi, M. Grin- M. Volodimarenko, participants chenko, G. Gubarev, V. Dreling, of Ten-Day festival of Russian Lit- L. Krizanivskyi, A. Krymskyi, erature and Art (Y. Dolmatovskiy, M. Kuznetsov, Y. Lopushinskaya, K. Simonov, M. Lukonin, A. Nikovskyi. S. Vasiliev, M. Aliger) etc. Th e funds of Kyiv City and Kyiv Many of formerly restricted Regional Committees of the Com- fi les have been declassifi ed in re- munist Party of Ukraine and cent years, but some records are the Lenin’s Communist Youth still of limited access. Some funds League of Ukraine are saved are unavailable, because of need in the Archives. for restoration.

Plan of Kyiv City. Publishing House “Mercury”. 1914

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The State Archives of Kirovograd Region

Historical Background On November, 17, 1925, at the Meeting of the Presidium of the Zinovievsk Regional Executive Committee, it was decided to cre- ate the archival department to organize the Archives of the Re- gional Executive Committee. At the end of 1930, this department was dissolved, and the Zinovievsk City Archival Department was created. At the beginning of 1932, the Zinovievsk City Archival De- partment changed its name to the Zinovievsk State Historical Archives. With the renaming of Zinovievsk Address: 3, Academician Koroliova Str. to Kirovo in 1934, the name of the (building 1) 1 g, Chornovola Str. (building 2) Archives also changed: the Zino- Kirovohrad, 25013 vievsk State Historical Archives Tel./fax: +380(522) 37-31-95, was renamed the Kirovo State 37-31-10, 37-31-65 (building 1) +380(522) 22-68-60 (building 2) Historical Archives. Aft er the es- E-mail: [email protected] tablishment of Kirovograd Region Web: dakiro.kr–admin.gov.ua in January, 1939, the Kirovo State Transport: trolleybus No 5 Historical Archives was renamed (to stop “Avtostantsyia”) to the Kirovograd Regional State trolleybus No 1, 4, 10 Historical Archives. From 1941 (to stop “Krytyi rynok”) minibus No 6, 10, 50, to 1958, the Archives was called 107, 108, 112 the State Archives of Kirovograd Region, from 1958 to 1980 it was Reading M–Th 9 am – 5 pm, room F 9 am – 1 pm the Kirovograd Regional State Ar- hours chives, and since 1980 – the State of operation: Archives of Kirovograd Region. Director: Tamara Chvan’ Total Volume of Funds 8 230 funds, 1 309 200 collection items (1759–2011); 218 collection items of scien- 116 tifi c and technical documentation (1946–1990); The State Archives of Region

Commodity sign of joint stock company of R. and Ò. Ålvorti in Elisavetgrad. 1911

251 collection items of fi lm doc- lishments, and educational and re- uments (1941–1990); ligious institutions, which provide 23 465 collection items of photo information about national and documents (1906–1930, 1941– class structure of the population 2010); of the territory, the organization 288 collection items of sound re- and activities of municipal and cordings (1962–2011); zemstvo self-governing bodies, 36 collection items of video doc- taxes, compulsory military ser- uments (2002–2010). vice and other responsibilities, the Description of Archival state and development of industry, Holdings commerce, construction, public Documents of the Archives education, culture, as well as in- from the end of the XVIII to the formation about the activities of beginning of the XX centuries il- religious denominations and in- lustrate the economic, political stitutions, about the construction, and cultural development of the design and property of temples, Yelysavetgrad, OleksAndryia and and the births registers of Ortho- povits of the Guberniya dox, Roman-Catholic , Judaic and of Kherson, the history of Yelysa- Protestant religions. vetgrad, the settlement and devel- Th e funds of private collec- opment of the lands surrounding tions from 1809 to 1917 preserve the fortress of Saint Yelyzaveta, the the documents of landowners formation of military settlements, M. Budzynkevych, O. Lutkovskyi, and the development of craft s and Z. Savutin, O. Dmytriev, princess trade provide information about H. Urusova, of the notary of the community life and the life style Yelysavetgrad Prince O. Yeristov, of the population in the territory. of merchants M. Soloviov and Th e funds of this period contain L. Umanskyi, and ethnographer the documents of local self-gov- P. R i a b k ov. erning bodies, courts and police, Post-1917 documents make up 117 land survey and boundary estab- a major part of the archival col- Archives of Ukraine

The Archives also Policy of Elisavetgrad fund of maintains funds of property protection military establish- from fire. 1882 ments: the Committee of Defence of Yelysa- vetgrad, the Yelysa- vetgrad and OleksAn- dryia povit and okrug military commissions, the Yelysavetgrad commission of cap- tives and refugees, the Department of the military commis- sioner for the railway district of Znamian- ka station, the No- voukrainskyi military censor, and volost, district, and city mili- tary commissions. Information about land tenure, the cre- ation of communes, agricultural coop- eratives, agricultural lection, and are contained in the collectivization, the liquidation funds of administrative authorities of peasants-owners, about the and state self-governing bodies, activity and technical outfitting industrial enterprises, agricultural of machine and tractor stations, establishments and organizations, collective farms, and state farms construction, transport, commu- is contained in the funds of coun- nication, science, education and cils, committees of poor peasants, culture, trade union and public or- and agricultural establishments. ganizations, and in personal funds The funds of trade union estab- and documents. lishments of Kirovograd Region Funds of executive committees contain many facts about the his- of councils of workers, peasants tory of trade union movements. and soldiers deputies, military The funds of establishments revolutionary committees contain that operated during the period rich historical material for the pe- of temporary Nazi occupation 118118 riod of the Ukrainian Revolution (1941–1944) form a separate of 1917–1920. group. These are the funds of the The State Archives of Region

Office of Command for keep- in the occupied territory during ing order in Ukraine, the Kiro- the period of World War II. vograd and Oleksandryia gebiet Th e fund of the Department of commissariats, district and city the Committee for State Security boards and their departments, in Ukraine for Kirovograd Re- village boards, police establish- gion keeps archival evidences of ments, court, statistics, industrial the cases of victims of the politi- enterprises, land departments cal repressions of 1920–1950s and and boards, bureaus of agricul- review cases of people who were tural production, directorate of forcibly transported to Germany state property, state farms, and during World War II. community property. They re- Documents in the personal flect “new order” of the occupa- funds are valuable additions to the tional regime and the living con- sources for studying the history ditions of the population in the of the 1920s to the 1990s. Th ese occupied territory, and contain are the funds of scholars and information about persons who cultural activists A. Zhuravskyi, transported for forced labour I. Tamm, H. Nosov, H. Po- to Germany. lianovskyi, N. Ihnatieva, A. Kosia- The funds of the Com- munist Party and Kom- Patent on the somol organizations privilege given (regional committees out to joint stock of party and Komso- company of R. and Ò. Ålvorti mol, city committees, in Elisavetgrad. district committees of 1913 the Party and Komso- mol, separate primary party and Komsomol organizations, estab- lishments and enter- prises) for 1920–1941 and 1944–1991 contain information about the Communist party and Komsomol activities, and the social, political, economic and cultural development of the ter- ritory. This group of documents also reveals the history of the un- 119119 derground movement Archives of Ukraine

chenko, H. Semenov, I. Terentiev, political life in the Region and its of writers O. Motornyi, M. Smo- inhabitants from the 1960s. lenchuk, O. Zhurlyva, pedagogues Among the photo documents are V. Sukhomlynskyi, I. Tkachenko, photos of the cities and towns of participants of the Great Patriotic Kirovograd Region, participants of War H. Balytskyi, A. Burkovskyi, the revolutionary movement and Y. Hlibko, O. Shapovalov, Y. Ta- the Great Patriotic War, partisans, deush, public fi gures: T. Hulia- members of underground organi- nytsky, O. Hitalov, M.Fortus, zations, Heroes of the Soviet Union students of local lore: I. Boyko, and of Socialist Labour, pace-mak- A. Dobrov, A. Kokhan, V. Krama- ers of production, public fi gures, renko, I. Protsenko, and others. scientists, culture and arts workers. Th e State Archives of the Region Phono-documents include re- has custody of records of veterans cordings of speeches, discussions, of the Great Patriotic War, of fi ght- interviews of public fi gures and fa- er-internationalists, of participants mous people of Kirovograd Region, of battles in Afghanistan, and let- and phonograms of musical and ar- ters from Ukrainian citizens en- tistic performances by performing slaved by the Nazis. groups of the Region. Film-, photo- and phono-docu- Today, investigative research ments make up a special group of aimed at protecting the rights and archival sources. Cinema docu- satisfying the social needs of citi- ments illustrate events of public zens most oft en leads to the ex- Merchant certificate amination of documents in of the second the funds of religious insti- guild. 1916 tutions, government bod- ies (region, district, city ex- ecutive committees, village councils of peoples depu- ties), the establishments and enterprises of industry, agri- culture, municipal economy (plants, factories, collective farms, state farms, etc.), as well as the examination of archival materials and fi l- tration cases for the 1920– 1950s period for people forc- ibly transported to Germany (Fund of the Department of the Committee of State Se- 120120 curity of Ukraine for Kirovo- grad Region). The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Lugansk Region

Historical Background Th e Lugansk Regional Archival Board (1925–1930); the Lugansk Municipal Archival Board (1930–1932); the Lugansk State Historical Ar- chives (1932–1935); the Voroshilovgrad Regional Historical Archives (1935–1938); the Voroshilovgrad Regional State Archives (1938–1941); the Voroshilovgrad State Ar- chives (1941–1958); the Lugansk Regional State Ar- chives (1958–1970); the Voroshilovgrad Regional

Address: 85, Sovetska Str., State Archives (1970–1980); Lugansk, 91053 the State Archives of Voroshi- Tel./fax: +380 (642) 58-17-69 lovgrad Region (1980–1990); Tel: +380 (642) 58-13-79 E–mail: [email protected] the State Archives of Lugansk Web: arhiv.lg.ua Region (since 1990). the Lugansk Regional Archival Transport: trolleybus No 51, 54 (to stop “26 School”), Board was founded on Septem- 52 (to stop “Donbass”) ber, 1, 1925. On October, 10, 1930 it was re-established into the Lu- Reading Tue–Th 10am–4pm, (building 1) room M 10am–4pm, F 10am–3.45pm gansk Municipal Archival Board. hours (building 2) Since March, 3, 1932 it was regis- of operation: tered as the Lugansk State Histori-

Director: Kateryna Bezhynska cal Archives. Lugansk was renamed in Vo- roshilovgrad on November, 5, 1935. Accordingly all-state bod- ies and departments underwent renaming too. In spring, 1938 the Voroshilovgrad State History Archives was turned into the Vo- roshilovgrad Regional Historical Archive. Since December, 3, 1938 121121 all state archival boards were intro- Archives of Ukraine

Lugansk women 7 681 collection items of scien- gymnasium. tifi c and technical documentation Slavyanoserbsk (1763–1916, 1943–1992); district, 472 collection items of fi lm docu- Ekaterinoslav Province. Record ments (1977–1990); in the metric book 19 346 collection items of photo documents (1951–1992); 215 collection items of sound re- cordings (1963–1988); 1 collection item of video docu- ments (1994–1999). Description of Archival Holdings In the Archives one can fi nd the documents preserved since the XVIII century till the present time. Th ey contain evidences about eco- nomic, social and cultural life of the region. duced into the National Committee Th e earliest documents are in the of Internal Aff airs (NCIA). funds of Lugansk foundry plant, Lu- Th e Voroshilovgrad Regional His- gansk and Slovyanoserbsk land de- torical Archives was renamed into partments, boards of share-holding the Voroshilovgrad Regional State companies, plants, mining diggings Archives in 1941. and many other businesses and en- In the period of the Nazi occupa- terprises that used to work on the tion (1942) all archival documents region territory. In the repository were evacuated. Th e Voroshi- The plan of the lovgrad State Archives resumed its 11 th part activity in 1943 aft er the liberation of Novo- of the City. Pavlovka village, Slavyanoserbsk Aft er the next renaming of Vo- district roshilovgrad into Lugansk on March, 5, 1958 the Archives was registered as the Lugansk Regional State Archives. It was subordinated to the Lugansk Regional Executive Committee. Since May, 4, 1990 it has been offi cially registered as the State Archives of Lugansk Region. Total Volume of Funds 122122 4 953 funds, 1 472 095 collection items (1763–2007); The State Archives of Region

diagrams and types of the loco- Plan of Taganrog motive production, informative district for the letters about the plant operation, Army of Don. Summer residences lists about the revolutionary dis- of settlement of turbances of 1905, workers strikes Tatyanovskyi in 1912 and 1916. Th e repositories of Cadyivka stone and coal diggings, Holubiv ore pits, Beresto-Bohoukhov min- ing production companies pre- serve the documents about their technical equipment and informa- tion about the coalminers. Th e collection of maps includes the information about the settle- ments of Starobelsk, Bakhmetovka and Slovjanoserbsk settlements of of Lugansk foundry plant one can 1813–1915. fi nd the registers about the founda- Th e funds of Lugansk and the tion of Lugansk plant village which Region contain hand-written was the beginning of Lugansk town documents (registration books of construction. Th e repository con- births, marriages and deaths) of tains diff erent revision inventories, 1787–1927. houses projects for the plant work- Th e repositories of the Russia Im- ers and the foremen, the Order of perial period were stocked by the the Senate on the resettlement of local government bodies, military the villagers from Novo Russian administration boards, industrial province and their registration at plants, educational establishments, the plant, some documents about shell production for the Chinese passports fl eet and the foundry of the monu- ment to honour the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 to be erected in Polotsk Town etc. Th e repositories of Lugansk steam locomotive plant of Hart- man, Lugansk bullet plant, Vill- hivskyi iron foundry plant, Donetsk plant of Russia chemical production stock company “Rosi- yskfarba” contain the evidences about Hartman plant foundation 123123 (1896), listings of its equipment, Archives of Ukraine

Main building of the State Archives about labour achievements of the of Lugansk Region region in the development of its economy, elections to the higher political and local government bod- ies, and ceremonies of the awards presentations. Th e funds of planning and sta- tistical bodies keep the documents about the period of collectiviza- tion, the reports of Shterovskaya power station construction as well as the general electrifi cation of Lu- gansk Region, the reports about the industry and agriculture develop- ments and achievements. Th e depository of the regional committee on the matters of iden- tifi cation and investigation into the crimes of the Nazi occupants postal and telegraph services, state holds the evidences about the and commercial banks. losses caused to the citizens, vil- Th e documents of the latest pe- lagers, social and public establish- riod include the listings of various ments, state industries in the years events in the years of the Revolution of World War II. in Ukraine of 1917–1920, the losses Depositories of the caused by intervention, requisition State Archives of Lugansk Region of landowners estates, repressions against the land owners, setting up of agricultural artels. Th e reposito- ries of the awards, the changes on the administration and territory level, the periods of organization, reorganization and elimination of diff erent enterprises, companies and establishments in the region. Th e funds of district, village and settlement executive bodies in- clude the evidences about surplus appropriation system and famine of 1930s. Th e repository of the Regional 124124 People’s Deputies Executive Com- mittee contains various documents The State Archives of Region

Depositories of the gional Communist party State Archives of committees and Komso- Lugansk Region mol organization. Th ey depict complicated pro- cesses of the Communist party system develop- ment, methods to resist the public opposition in villages, of famine and repressions in the 1930s, activity of the local Com- munist party and Kom- somol underground and Numerous groups of repositories partisan movements in the years are represented by the funds of en- of World War II. terprises and plants of the leading Video-and-still documents pre- industrial fi elds. Th e condition of serve the bright pages of Lugansk coal industry is featured by the doc- Region; holidays, anniversaries, city uments of mining administrations parades and demonstrations, elec- on coal mining, selling and concen- tions, sport events, city contests, tration of coal, listings about coal monument erections, new schools deposits, coal mining construc- opening, reports and articles from tions, mechanization of industrial the plants about the labour achieve- processes, and promotion of pro- ments and leaders, honouring and duction experience. awarding the war and labour atten- Th e funds of health care bodies of museums, theatres, librar- feature the situation in the sanitary ies, interviews with famous people. area and measures against infec- Photo documents of Lugansk in tious diseases. diff erent history periods arise the Th e documents about the struggle special interest. against illiteracy, open- ing of the new schools, Work in the activities of various reading-room of the State Archives youth organizations can of Lugansk Region be found in the deposi- tory of the public educa- tion bodies. Th ey also provide the information about the activities of lo- cal culture departments. Th e Archives holds the documents of vari- 125125 ous public bodies, re- Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Lviv Region

Historical Background Th e State Archives of Lviv Re- gion were established in December, 1939 on the basis of former the Pol- ish State Archives in Lviv where a small number of records of local the Austrian-Hungarian and Polish ad- ministrative bodies were preserved and till 1941 was called the Lviv State Regional Historical Archives of the Lviv Regional Department of People’s Commissariat of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrainian SSR. Sub- sequently its name and subordina- tion were changed several times: the Lviv Regional State Archives of

Address: 13, Pidvalna Str., the Lviv Regional Department of Lviv, 79008 People’s Commissariat of Internal Tel: +380 (32) 235-47-75, Aff airs (from 1946 – the Ministry 235-55-49, 235-47-22, 235-53-50 of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrainian Tel./fax: +380 (32) 272-78-70 SSR (1944–1956), the State Archives E-mail: [email protected] of Lviv Region of the Archives De- Web: archive.lviv.ua partment of the Ministry of Internal Transport: tram No 1, 9 Aff airs of the Ukrainian SSR (1956– (to stop “Rus’ka Str.”) 1959), the Lviv Regional State Ar-

Reading M – F 9 am – 6 pm chives of the Archival Department room hours of the Lviv Regional Executive Com- of operation: mittee (1960–1982), the State Ar-

Director: Petro Kravchuk chives of Lviv Region of the Archival Department of the Lviv Regional Executive Committee (1982–1988), the State Archives of Lviv Region of the Archival Department of the Lviv Regional Council (1988–1996), and from 1996 – the Lviv Regional State Archives of the Lviv Regional State Administration. 126126 A branch of the Lviv State Re- gional Archives in was es- The State Archives of Region

Photo of building tablished in 1959 on the of the University basis of liquidated the from Lviv National Regional University Funds State Archives, which (1870–1919) was located in Sambir. Th is branch functioned till 1977, and aft er its liquidation all archival records were transferred and stored in the reposi- tories of the Lviv Re- gional State Archives. In 1991 all archival records of the Lviv development of Lviv and former Regional Committee of the Commu- Drohobych Regions. nist Party of Ukraine together with Th e Archives preserves docu- the building of the former Regional ments of state and public-politi- Party Archives were turned over to cal organizations, establishments, the Lviv Regional State Archives. enterprises and unions that func- A greater part of records of the Lviv tioned in Lviv Region in the periods Regional State Archives are kept on of Austrian-Hungarian monarchy the premises of former Dominican (1772–1918), the Polish Repub- Monastery – the monument of archi- lic in the period between World tecture of the XVII – XVIII centuries. War I and World War II (1918– Total Volume of Funds 1939), the Ukrainian SSR (1939– 5 124 funds, 2 440 130 record units 1941, 1944–1991), the Nazi occupa- (34279 l. m.) for 1772–2011; tion of 1941–1944 in World War II. 7 922 record units of scientifi c- In recent years the Archives is sup- technical documentation for 1964– plied with documents of organiza- 1985; tions, establishments and enterpris- 6 708 units of fi lm documents for es of independent Ukraine. 1959–1986; Lviv City Hall 41 809 photographic (1784–1828) from documents for 1946– Funds of Lviv magistracy of 1993; Austrian period 697 units of audio documents for 1960– 1995. Description of Archival Holdings Th e Archives’ docu- ments refl ect his- tory of economic, 127127 political and cultural Archives of Ukraine

Paintings Funds magistrate’s land ownership registra- of V. Ivasyuk of institu- tion records (1788–1799); register of tions of the privileges granted by the Polish kings Austrian- to the Sambir Town (1629–1669); Hungarian decisions of the courts on adminis- period trative-economic matters; minutes of contain the meetings and correspondence of data on Lviv magistrate (1787–1798), the Lviv the work City Council (1849–1862); real estate of local sale and lease contracts; household self-gov- records of Lviv City properties (1854); ernment testamentary documents pertaining bodies, courts, prosecutor’s offi ce, and to immovable property (1849–1918). police. Of special value are the funds Of special value are the funds of pro- of Lviv magistrate, higher education vincial and county authorities, district establishments. courts and prosecutors’ offi ces, police Among the unique archival sources authorities of pre-war Poland. preserved in the State Archives are Extensive data are contained in copies of the decrees of the Austrian documents of the funds of the Central emperors; rules and decisions of the Command of Gendarmerie in Lviv, court of appeals of Galicia and Lodo- Lviv District Command of Gendar- meria (present day Volyn) (1787); merie, Lviv District Court, Society copies of the decrees of the Austrian for the study of history of defence of Emperor, orders of the Ministry of In- Lviv and the South-East provinces ternal Aff airs of the Austrian-Hungar- in 1918–1920 (copies of the decrees ian Empire, instructions of the gov- of the Galician Revolutionary Com- ernorate of Galician province, other mittee, protocols of the revolutionary documents on the abolishment of serf- committees, leafl ets, appeals of po- dom in Galicia and Lodomeria, abro- litical departments of the , gation of feudal duties and reimburse- declarations of S. Petlyura. Th e de- ment to the landowners of Photo of State losses connected therewith Archives of Lviv Region, (1848–1851); documents 13, Pidvalna Str. on organization in Lviv of the National Guard (1848); on introduction and sub- sequent cancellation of martial law in Galicia in connection with the Pol- ish uprising (1863–1864); documents connected 128 with privileges of the City of Lviv in various years; The State Archives of Region crees of the West Ukrai- Photo of the nian People’s Republic, depositories of the documents and reports on State Archives of combat actions of the Pol- Lviv Region ish and Ukrainian armies, plans, maps of military operations, diaries, manu- scripts of combat veterans, photographs, personal fi les, list of the participants of the Polish-Ukrainian War). Of unique character is the fund of the County Commissariat in Lviv, Labour exchange, Bureau for of the Ukrainian People’s Republic recruitment of population for work in (1918–1919). Germany etc. A separate group of valuable docu- Funds of the Soviet period contain ments consists of confi scated pe- documents of the state power bodies riodical and other publications of and their structural units, regional 1918–1939, documents of mass me- courts and prosecutors’ offi ces, en- dia and law enforcement bodies of terprises, organizations, establish- Poland connected with the Famine ments, educational and research- in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932–1933, and-development establishments, documents refl ecting the process of artistic unions, documents of the formation and activities of the Or- Lviv Regional Department of the Se- ganization of Ukrainian National- curity Service of Ukraine (clearance ists – the Ukrainian Rebellion Army fi les of citizens of Lviv and Drohobych (OUN–URA) on the territory of Lviv Regions deported for compulsory and Drohobych regions. labour to Germany in 1941–1944, Funds of the estab- lishments and organi- Settlement of zations of the period privilege on establishing of the Nazi occupation Collegiums have been preserved in Lviv. 1661. partially: among other From University documents they con- Funds tain the funds of the Galicia District gov- ernorate, Lviv and Drohobych district authorities, Lviv City Authority, the Ukrai- 129129 nian Police Command Archives of Ukraine

Photos of courtyard establishments and of the State organizations of Archives various forms of of Lviv Region ownership. Among the personal funds preserved in the Archives are the funds of bibliogra- pher I. Kalynovych, classifi ed archive criminal proceed- writer V. Gzhytskyi, composer ings fi les of citizens subjected to re- A. Kos-Anatolskyi, electrical engineer- pressions), documents on recipro- ing scientist H. Sokolnytskyi, linguist cal evacuation of the Ukrainian and M. Rudnytskyy, professors of Lviv Uni- Polish population under the Agree- versity L. Finkel, V. Brukhnalskyi, com- ment between the Government of the poser V. Ivasyuk, writer M. Dalekyi, Ukrainian SSR and the Polish Com- historian M. Korduba, Polish politi- mittee for National Liberation from cian, writer and publicist Karol Foster, September, 9, 1944 and resettlement senior research fellow of the Institute of citizens under other international of Social Sciences of the Academy of agreements (1944–1948, 1951 etc.). Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR A. Hen- Th e Archives preserves documents of syorskyi, composer Ya. Yaroslavenko- the regional Communist party com- Vintskovskyi, writer V. Belyayev, writ- mittees and the party organizations er V. Lozovyi, Ukrainian public and of Lviv and Drohobych Regions, the political fi gure D. Stachura, librarian Young Communist League organiza- of Jan Kazimier’s University library in tions and trade unions for 1939–1941, Lviv, Polish writer Justyn Goszowskyi, 1944–1991. some documents and autographs of Funds of the period of indepen- F. List, M. Hrushevskyi, I. Trush, dent Ukraine contain, predominantly, G. Sienkiewicz, J. Paderewskyi, documents of liquidated enterprises, W. Grimm, Ye. Chykalenko, V. Le- One of the ontovych, F. Kolessa, O. Makovey, buildings of the M. Sklodowska-Curie, Les Mar- State Archives of tovych, S. Bandera, R. Shukhevych, Lviv Region. other outstanding public and political 4, Buyko Str. fi gures, coryphaei of science, culture, art. Of special signifi cance are docu- ments pertaining to life and work of I. Franko – they include reports of the police surveillance of I. Franko and his wife, the writer’s work in Latin he wrote 130130 as a student “About Lukian and his time” (1877). The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Mykolaiv Region

Historical Background Th e history of the State Archives in Mykolaiv Region is closely con- nected with the history of Mykolaiv, which was the centre of shipbuilding in the south of the Russian Empire, the main port of the Black Sea fl eet. Th e history of the Archives is con- nected with the development of this land and dates back to the end of the XVIII century. First archives in Mykolaiv were set up in 1796 and were attached to the Black Sea De- partment Offi ce. Th e Archives were subordinated to the Naval Depart- ment and the records of the Black Sea

Address: 1, Moskovska Str., Fleet Administration shipbuilding Mykolaiv, 54001 yards, stevedore offi ces of Mykolaiv, Tel./fax: +380 (512) 37-00-65, Kherson, Sevastopol and Taganrog 37-42-89 E-mail: [email protected] were kept there. On May, 3, 1844 the Web: archiv.mk.ua city archives of the town self-govern- ment institutions and military units Transport: trolleybus No 2 (to stop “Vasliaev Str. “) were set up by the Order of M. Laza- tram No 1, 7 rev, the Black Sea Fleet Chief Com- (to stop “Vasliaev Str.”) mander Admiral, when in January,

Reading M – Th 8am – 5pm 1920 the Soviet power was estab- room hours lished all the archives were national- of operation: ized and in 1921 the State Archives

Director: Larysa Levchenko of Mykolaiv Region were created. PhD (History) Th ey have existed till this time and got the present name in 1940. From 1935 to 1992 there were the Com- munist Party Archives in Mykolaiv but when the USSR Communist Party had cancelled the records that were preserved in the Party archives, the building and other property were given to the State Archives. In 1934 131131 the biggest part of the records on Archives of Ukraine

Work with archival Total Volume documents. of Funds 1930s By January, 1, 2012 the archives has preserved re- cords of 6 017 funds; 1 122 722 paper fi les; 3 760 fi les of sci- entifi c and techni- cal records; 33 588 fi lm units the history of the Black Sea Fleet was (photo, phono, cinema and video). taken out to St. Petersburg. During the Description of Archival Holdings World War II the Nazi took to Germa- Th e oldest records date back to ny almost 6 000 fi les on the history of 1787–1789. Th ey are unique “Re- German colonies. In 1992–1993 the cords of Mykolaiv construction” Security Service of Ukraine passed to (1787–1798) about foundation of Archives 27 472 personal records of Mykolaiv as a centre of shipbuilding the “fi ltered” citizens who had been in the south of Ukraine. sent to forced labour in Germany Th e fund “Administration of ad- during World War II. In 1998 the Ar- miral settlements in the Black Sea chives started to accept criminal dos- Region” (1800–1862) comprises siers of the cases which had not been valuable evidences about construc- brought into court from the former tion of shipyards at the mouth of the Committee for State Security (KGB). Pivdennyi Bug and the Ingul as well Modern storage as Mykolaiv City, the fortress Sevas- of the State topol, ship of the Black Sea Fleet and Archives of admiral settlements. Mykolaiv Region Th e funds “Th e Mykolaiv Military Governor Chancery” (1805–1900) and “Th e Mykolaiv Mayor Chan- cery” (1900–1919) are the main sources of information about the his- tory of Mykolaiv. Th e records charac- terize the development of Mykolaiv in the ХIХ – beg. of the ХХ centuries population, national structure, in- vestment of foreign capital into the city industry, the establishing Jew- 132132 ish, German and Bulgarian colonies on the territory of the Region. Th ere The State Archives of Region is interesting in- Archival worker formation about Olexandr construction Seredinskyi holds of the sea-port, seminar on using documents. The shipbuilding State Archives of plants “Naval” Mykolaiv Region. and “Chorno- 2009 morskyi”, the agricultural ma- chinery plant by brothers Donski in the funds. Th e funds “Th e Mykolaiv Mili- tary Governor Chancery” comprise in international and national exhi- the records about the Crimean War bitions. (1853–1856), participation of Myko- Th e archival fund “Mykolaiv mer- laiv citizens in it, heroic siege of chant port” (1866–1918) gives us Sevastopol, outstanding naval com- notion of the construction and pub- manders: I. de Traverse, O. Greyg, lic service organisation in the port, M. Butakov, B. Glazenap, N. Arkas making the port ready to accept and others. foreign ships, the building of the el- Th e records from the Archives evator, development of the sea and of the shipbuilding plant “Naval” river commerce, inland and foreign (1895–1919) which was founded trade. Information on foreign rela- in 1895 by the Belgian joint-stock tions can be found in the funds of company of shipbuilding, machin- Mykolaiv (1800–1862) and ery and foundry plants and from the (1828–1917) custom posts, Ochakiv archives of “Russud” (1911–1919), (1792–1806) and Mykolaiv (1850– founded in 1919 by the Russian 1919) custom houses. shipbuilding joint-stock company Th ey also contain interesting re- on the basis of the admiralty (1788) cords about the embargo on grain ex- Archival worker show the construc- Julia Bugaevska tion of the war- guides the ships of the Black exhibition devoted Sea Fleet, the leg- to the heroes of the Region, who endary battleship fought against the “Potyomkin” in Nazi occupation. particular develop- 2012 ment of merchant shipbuilding, the shipyards equip- 133133 ment, participation Archives of Ukraine

Metric books cover page. 1911 ince and other religious institutions. Th e records of the Soviet period aft er 1917 account for the major part of the Archives (70 p.c.), they are preserved in the funds of the local governmen- tal bodies, committees of poor farm- ers, industry enterprises, agriculture, commerce transport, communica- tion, construction, fi nance, corporal organizations, medical institutions, trade unions, party and Komsomol organizations. Th e records characterize compli- cated political, social and economic events of Mykolaiv since 1917. Th e records of numerous executive and revolutionary committees show the establishment of revolutionary regime port from the ports of Ekaterinoslav in Mykolaiv Region and restoration of vicegerency (1794), about sequestra- economy destroyed during the Civil tion of English ships that were in Rus- War. Th ey characterize the economy sian ports, the embargo on the Eng- and political situation in towns and lish goods (1800) the rules of foreign villages of Mykolaiv Region. trade, about the deportation of French Th e information about famine in people who supported the Revolution 1921 and assistance given to the starv- in France, the embargo on the French ing people is presented in the funds of goods (1793) and arrest of the ships Blazon of the Golenischev- belonging to the countries at war with Kutuzov Russian Russia (1914). princely family. Th e records of the Mykolaiv Statis- Middle of the tics Committee (1862–1917) contain XIX century valuable information about the popu- lation, archaeological excavations, old settlements and burial mounds on the territory of Mykolaiv Region, statis- tics of factories and plants, register of farms in Kherson district. A lot of interesting information con- tain the records of Mykolaiv Admiral Cathedral (1796–1919), Ochakiv Mil- itary Cathedral (1806–1908), church 134134 archives in , Kherson, Elisa- vetgrad, districts of Kherson prov- The State Archives of Region

Old printed books the region and district in library of the boards of assistance State Archives of to the starving, region Mykolaiv Region and district party orga- nizations, in the funds of the representative of the international commission created by F. Nanses to fi ght with the Famine and the Mikolaiv District Committee of the American Adminis- tration of giving assis- tance to the starving population. Th e period of the German and Roma- nian occupation of Mykolaiv region derground organizations “Mykolaiv in 1941–1944 is dealt with – in the centre” and “Partizanskaya Iskra”, par- Archives of the occupation admin- tizan detachments, reconnaissance istration – general commissar of and sabotage groups. Th e archives Mykolaiv, town council, small rural preserve the records of the Mykolaiv district councils, district prefectures, Regional Commission assisting to the region praetors, village primaries. State Extraordinary Committee for Th e records of these funds describe investigation of the crimes of the Nazi the establishment of severe terroristic occupants. Th e records contain state- regime with the purpose to ransack ments and statistics of the crimes and destroy the , mass killing of the the damage done by the Nazi during population. Th e lists of ghetto pris- World War II in Mykolaiv Region. oners in Akmechetka, Bogdanivka, Th e records of the post-war period Vradiivka, , , funds contain information about he- Mostove, Slivino, Tryduby and Pervo- roic work of people in the restoration maisk have been partly preserved. of the economy destroyed by the war Th e collection of records of Myko- and social economic development laiv Region in the Great Patriotic War of the oblast. Th e records of gigantic contains information about people’s shipbuilding plants “Chernomors- struggle against occupation. Th e his- kiy”, “61 Communars”, “Okean” pres- tory of underground and partizan ent the history of shipbuilding. Th e movement is presented in the reports, Archives contains information about sertifi cates of the party and soviet construction of whale ships, refriger- organizations, reports of the under- ator ships, super traulers and fi sh can- 135135 ground leaders on the activity of un- nery ships, scientifi c research ships, Archives of Ukraine

Map of Mykolaiv tains city and with designation town maps of guerrilla of Mykolaiv, organizations, groups and units Voznesensk, which acted Ochakiv, Vi- under the Nazi sunsk, Bere- occupation znegovate, (1941–1944) longitudinal schemes of streets and squares in Mykolaiv, working draughts of buildings, schemes of their con- struction and many other papers. aircraft carriers: e.g. whale ships fl o- Th e collection of reminiscences of tilla “Sovetskaya Rossia” and “Sovets- the Soviet citizens who were deported kaya Ukraina”, the research ship “Aca- to Germany in 1942–1944 is of great demic ” and others. interest. Th e records of the KGB Adminis- Th e Archives preserves 50 private tration in Mykolaiv Region comprise funds. Th e most interesting are the fi les of “fi ltered” and criminal cases. archives of a Ukrainian historian Th ey contain information about mass and composer N. Arkas, the founder deportation of people to Germany, of “Prosvita” society in Mykolaiv, mass repressions of Stalin regime. of S. Gaiduchenko – the chairman Th e State Archives has a rich collec- of the town museum commission, tion of church registers of births, mar- A. Golenichshev-Kutuzov – a mem- riages and deaths from 1804 to 1919 ber of the Russian geographic society, and books of registrations up to 1925. V. Rumin – an engineer and technolo- Th e base of records about social- gist, propagandist of K. Tsiolkovsky’s economic and cultural life of Ukraine ideas in the fi eld of space exploration. is compiled by the records from the Th e scientifi c reference library archives of party and Komsomol or- of the Archives contains books on ganizations. law, reference books and local lore 12 collections of records are pre- literature, offi cial issues of local in- served in the state archives. Th e old- stitutions, newspapers, collections 136136 est collection is “Collection of maps of leafl ets, posters, encyclopaedias, and draughts” (1800–1935). It con- dictionaries etc. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Odesa Region

Historical Background Th e State Archives of Odesa Re- gion was founded in 1920 as the Odesa Historical Archives. Th e main funds of the pre-revolutionary peri- od accepted were from the Novoro- sia and Besarabia Governor-General Administration, the Guardianship Committee for Foreign Settlers in the South Russia, the Odesa Offi ce for Foreign Settlers in the South Russia, Novorosiiskyi University, various institutions acting in Odesa such as: the City Chief, the City Council, Police Offi ce, the Com- mercial Court, banks, port offi ces, Address: Administrative (1st) building: customs, and other colleges and 18, Zhukovskogo Str., schools, cultural societies, churches Odesa, 65026 Tel.: +380 (48) 722-19-87, and others. 725-09-10, 725-12-19 With the beginning of World Tel./fax: +380 (48) 722-80-25 E-mail: [email protected] War II and the German-Romanian 2nd building: 29, Pirogovska Str., occupation of Odesa in 1941, a ma- Odesa, 56023 jor portion of the pre-revolutionary Tel.: +380 (48) 718-92-01, 718-95-80, 718-95-79 records were evacuated to Stalin- E-mail: pirogov–[email protected] grad. In 1942, when battles reached Web: derjarhiv.odessa.gov.ua the City, archives were evacuated to Transport: To Administrative (1st) building the City of Uralsk, West Kazakhstan (18, Zhukovskogo Str.): trolleybus No 1; fi xed–minibus Region. No 117; minibus No 124 Lots of documentation of the So- (to stop “Zhukovskogo Str.”) viet period was left in Odesa. Still, To the 2nd building (29, Pirogovskaya Str.): replacements and evacuations led minibus No 117, 129, to irrecoverable waste: more than trolleybus No 8 (to stop “Railway Station”) 1 million archival fi les in Odesa Re- gion (50 percent) were lost or de- Reading M – Th 10 am – 5 pm, room hours F 10 am – 3.45 pm stroyed during the War. of operation: In April, 1944, the Odesa Archives renewed its work. Aft er the War, Director: Ivan Nitochko new archival documents on the his- 137137 tory of Odesa Region were accepted. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives Th e earliest and of Odesa Region, most valuable Administrative (1st) building. Building documents are of the former concentrated in Brodska ; the funds of the from 1944 – General-Gover- premises of the Archives nor Administra- tion for Novorosia and Besarabia, the Odesa City Chief Offi ce, Odesa Po- lice Offi ce, the Balta Povit Court, Starting from 1980 it is named as the Odesa Povit Zemskyi Offi ce, the State Archives of Odesa Region. Odesa Customs and others. Total Volume of Funds Th e most important and diverse are 13 093 funds, including 94 funds funds of the Odesa City Council and of the period of independence of the Odesa City Administration. Th e Ukraine (since 1991) 2 061 179 fi les main documents are: including of for 1572–2011, including: the individuals to the merchants and 2 038 967 papered fi les (1752– petty bourgeois, accept of the Russian 2011); citizenship; delivery of passports, cer- 12 307 units of scientifi c-tech- tifi cates, resident permits; giving lots nical documentation (XVIII– for building of houses; annual lists of XXI century); merchants with indication of their 3 173 units of documentaries capitals; information about recovery (1961–2007); of taxes; establishment and activity of 22 790 units of photo (1951– trade fi rms; participation in benevo- 2011); lent actions; information about state 898 units of phono-documents of hospitals, cemeteries, orphanages, (1967–2007); religious institutions, also on recruits, 527 units of video fi lms (2000– well-known persons etc. A separate 2011). family register of Odesa honorary cit- Description of Archival Holdings izen for 1854–1897 includes 304 fam- Th e earliest documents of the ilies of famous Odesans. Besides the State Archives of Odesa Region are general record management, special the unique orders of Polish origin documentation is also concentrated for XVI–XVII century, collected by in the Jewish desk. Professor of Novorosiisk University Fund of the Odesa City Chief Of- I. Linnichenko. Th e fi rst of them fi ce contains materials about Odesa written in Latin and stamped with community among the documenta- 138 red sealing-wax dated from the year tion of a few desks. Regulatory and 1572. economic desks include permits The State Archives of Region

The earliest documents of the State Archives of Odesa Region: Polish diploma from the fund of Professor I. Linnichenko. 1572

delivered to individuals for opening Economical life of Odesa and for- businesses, information about state mer Kherson Guberniya is refl ected of manufactures, factories and trade by the documents of fi nancial institu- fi rms, application of businessmen tions such as: Odesa Povit Treasure, on various questions. Court desk Excise Offi ce in Kherson Guberniya, consists of the documents on bank- Zemskyi Bank of Kherson Guber- rupts, claims against their estates and niya, Besarabsko-Tavricheskyi Land protection of merchants’ heritage. Bank, tax inspectors in Odesa, pri- Passport desk contains fi les with vate banks of Samuil Barbash, Ashke- documents of 1808–1898 to entry nazi and others. Th ese funds include Russia from abroad and departure fi nancial documentation, business from Russia abroad delivered to in- correspondence, revision registers of dividuals: passports, certifi cates from population, merchant certifi cates, in- foreign consulates, debenture with formation about his properties, war- warrants, applications for resident rants, notary acts, information about permits. Materials of the desk of soci- export-import operations through eties refl ect the process of foundation Odesa port, descriptions of enter- various national, professional, be- prises, works and factories, contracts nevolent and political societies in the of sale, gift s, and bartering etc. end of XIX – beginning XX century. Materials of volost and village offi c- Th e 1st All-Russian Census, 1897 is es were arrived at the Odesa Archives of great historical consequence and in the 1930s. Typical documents lists full information on each family, of village offi ce records (including a total of 3 000 fi les. It is a unique in- 19 of the German ones) are orders formation about Odesa society in the and directions of higher authorities; 139139 end of the XIX century. economic, fi nancial, and social states Archives of Ukraine

Banner of Danube operations of orphanages, records of Cossack regiment. properties owned my members, cel- Water color. 1814 ebrations, cultural events, practices of tradition, and much more. Funds of the Soviet period started with the beginning of the Soviet power in 1917. Between 1919 and 1923 the higher organs of power and management in the territory of Kher- son Guberniya became revolutionary committees (revkoms) and executive committees of the Soviet workers, peasants, and soldiers (ispolkoms) – gubernial, povit, volost and rural ones. Th eir documentation shows the stabilization of economic and social conditions for all of people in Kher- of the villages; interactions with peas- son (Odesa) Guberniya during the ants; grants and loans; inspections; revolution and the Civil War (1917– business matters; health issues; taxes; 1920), numerous administrative- use of orphan capital; compensa- territorial changes whereupon old tion for losses; agricultural practices; administrative units were destroyed. court cases; church activities; educa- In 1919 Odesa Guberniya consisted tion; departure of peasants to of six povits: Odesa, Tiraspol, Vozne- in 1898–1905; charitable activities; sensk, Ananyev, Balta, and Pervo- police records and others. maisk. Odesa Povit was divided into Religious institutions of various 43 volosts, in 1920 they were integrat- confessions are represented by some ed into only 20. Th e population num- funds that contain more then 6 000 bers of volosts were very diff erent and church metrical books (birth, mar- varied between 5 000 and 30 000. riage, divorce and death entries) of Th at ineff ective system was the Orthodox, Evangelical-Lutheran, changed again between 1923 and Rome-Catholic, Armenian, Jewish, 1925 when the old pre-revolutionary Moslem and other religions. Th ey also territorial division was changed fi - contain an offi cial correspondence, nally into the three-level system of materials about activities of pastors, management: rayon (district), okrug genealogical information, evidence (conglomerate of districts), and cen- of disease, use of religious materials ter (guberniya or region). In Odesa in educational institutions, records Guberniya, six okrugs were created: of donations, annual debit and credit Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Balta, lists of church communities, sav- Elisavetgrad, and Pervomaisk; each 140140 ings banks maintained for orphans divided into rayons. Odesa okrug, for and widows, charitable activities, example, had 18 rayons. Former vo- The State Archives of Region losts were absorbed into rayons. Be- Funds of educational soviet system tween 1923 and 1932 the higher or- include materials of Odesa Institute gans of power and management were of People Education, Odesa Uni- executive committees of the Soviet versity, Odesa German Pedagogi- workers and peasants (ispolkoms) – cal Institute, Polytechnic Institute, the gubernial, okrug, rayon and Stalin Jewish Agricultural Institute village ones. in Odesa, Jewish Agricultural Insti- Funds of administrative organs tute in Novo-Poltavka, Odesa Jew- refl ect a policy to abolish private ish Pedagogical College, Odesa Jew- ownership started with campaigns ish College of Precision Mechanics against prosperous farmers (kulaks) (Trust of “Ukrainian Film”), schools, in 1921 and led to the full realloca- courses for workers and others con- tion of land and taking of other pos- tained management recording, lists sessions, kulaks being exiled to Sibe- of teachers and students, progress- ria, starvation, closing of churches sheets, results of examinations, and imprisoning priests, and punish- diploma works, personal fi les. ment of those who expressed discon- A documental complex specifi cally tent against the Soviet power. Such for the period of temporal Roma- processes are refl ected in the docu- nian-German occupation of Odesa mentation of state organs, through and Odesa Region (1941–1944) con- numerous complaints from peasants tains about 900 funds of government to prosecutor and militia offi ces, in organs formed in the Governorship decisions at peasant meetings, and of Transnistria, the territory occu- in materials on collectivization and pied between the Dnister and the foundation of kolgosps (collective South Bug Rivers under the jurisdic- farms). Numerous documents of the tion of the Royal Romania – direc- 30s refl ect consequences of collectiv- ization and communist ruling such Cavalryman of as the in 1922–1923 and Cossack formation. 1932–1933. Water color. 1814 More detailed information about economic and social state of popula- tion in 1920–1930s is in the separate funds of national organizations, so- cieties, educational institutions and political formations, including the Jewish ones. Th e Archives preserves some funds of international organi- zation for supporting starving popu- lation in Odesa Region in 1922–1925 such as: the American Relief Admin- istration (ARA), “Joint”, Nansen’s 141 Mission and others. Archives of Ukraine

German settlement of Grunau in theatres, muse- Mariupol district. ums, societies, sci- Lithography. XIX entifi c institutions, century public health services, statistic offi ces. Th e most valuable are Ode- sa State University by I. Mechnikov, tions, primaries, prefectures, prae- South-Ukrainian Pedagogical Uni- tors, courts, police offi ces, siguranza versity by К. Ushynskyi, Museum of (secret police), plants, agricultural Local History, Art Museum, Odesa communities, educational and cul- Research Institute of Ophtalmology tural institutions. by V. Filatov etc. Detailed statistic information about Th e most popular documentation victims and damages in Odesa Re- of the Soviet period is birth, marriage, gion are in documentation of special divorce and death records for Odesa regional and district commissions ex- Region localities (1920–1935) that is traordinary for determination of dam- very important for confi rmation of age from the Romanian-German oc- biographical facts and genealogical cupation, formed just aft er liberation. research. Funds of the Black Sea Shipping Th e Odesa Archives preserve Company, Odesa Commercial Fleet, 151 private funds of famous people – and Odesa-Kishinev Railroad con- scientists, politics, writers, actors, tain documents about development military and civil offi cials, doctors of transport system in the Region and (A. Skalkovskyi, G. Marazli, Rodokan- activity of its branches. aki-Yur’evychi, Inglezi, Strudza etc). Th e State Archives of Odesa Region Th ey contain materials about public accepted also funds of institutions of and private life of the person (family), higher education, colleges, schools, mainly family correspondence, photo, manuscripts, collections of cards, invi- Autograph of tations, greetings, newspapers, posters O. S. Pushkin. 1824 etc. Some of them are referred to the history of the bright representatives of cosmopolitan Odesa society. Th e most special is the fund of Odesa photogra- pher Leonid Sidorskyi with more then 22 000 photos in it. Th e State Archives of Odesa Region preserve documentaries, photo, audio and video documents, which refl ect 142142 social, political and cultural life of Odesa City and Odesa Region. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Poltava Region

Historical Background Th e Central Historical Archives of Poltava Region were founded on January, 20, 1918 according to the Resolution of the Poltava Province Council. Th e Archives’ personnel were confi rmed on August, 9, 1918. On November, 7, 1920 the Archives formed a part of Central Proletar- ian Museum of Poltava Region and was subordinated to the Province Executive Committee. On August, 4, 1922 the institution was subordi- nated to the Poltava Province Archi- val Administration and was renamed into the Poltava Province Historical

Address: 18/24, Pushkin Street, Archives. Poltava, 36011 (building 1) Since October, 3, 1925 the name of 1A, Zygin Street, the institution was the Poltava His- Poltava, 36000 (building 2) Tel.: (0532) 7-23-31, torical Archives by the Poltava Dis- 2-94-95, 7-34-39, 2-29-88. trict Archival Administration, since E–mail: [email protected] June, 1926 – the Poltava District His- Web: poltava.arcvives.gov.ua torical Archives. Transport: Building 1 – trolleybus No 1, 2, 4, 6 On March, 1, 1932 on the basis of (to stop “Tsentr”) the Poltava Archival Administration Building 2 – trolleybus No 1, 4 (to stop “Sinna”) and the Poltava District Historical Archives the State Archives of Poltava Reading M– F 8am – 5pm was formed. Th e institution was sub- room hours of operation: ordinated to the Kharkiv Regional Archival Administration. Director: Hanna Bilous Since July, 25, 1937 the Archives was renamed into the Poltava Re- gional Historical Archives by the Pol- tava Regional Archival Administra- tion, since March 1939 the Archives was subordinated to the Archival Department of the People’s Commis- sariat for Internal Aff airs of Poltava 143143 Region in Ukraine. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Poltava Region. partment its functions, personnel Building 1 and salary-funds were transferred to the State Archives of Poltava Region, which formed a part of the Council of Ministers Executive Committee in Poltava Region. In September, 1991 according to the Resolution of the Poltava Re- gion Executive Committee No 213 According to the Resolution of from 10.09.1991 the Party archival the Soviet Government the Poltava documents of the Poltava Regional Regional Historical Archives was Committee of the Communist Party renamed into the State Archives of in Ukraine, the building and the per- Poltava Region on March, 29, 1941. sonnel was transferred to the State During the Nazi occupation 2 689 Archives of Poltava Region. funds (1 572 795 cases), the great On May, 13, 1992 the State part of non-listed documents and 40 Archives of Poltava Region formed thousands books of scientifi c-infor- a part of the Poltava State Adminis- mational archival system were lost. tration, on August, 8, the 1994 State Since 1946 the State Archives of Archives has been joined to the Poltava Region was subordinated to Poltava Regional Soviet of People’s the Archival Department of the Min- Deputies, on December, 6, 1995 – to istry of Internal Aff airs Administra- the Poltava Regional State Adminis- tion in Poltava Region. tration according to the principle of On October, 4, 1958 in accordance double subordination. with the Resolution No 418 of the Since November, 28, 1996 the State Ukrainian Soviet Council of Minis- Archives of Poltava Region appear as ters the Archives was renamed into local government body and are sub- the Poltava Regional State Archives. ordinated to the Regional State Ad- Since April, 11, 1960 the Archives ministration and the State Archives was subordinated to the Archival Committee of Ukraine. Department of Poltava Region Ex- Nowadays the legislatively assigned ecutive Committee. On August, system of regional archival institu- 1980 according to the Resolution tions contains: the State Archives of of the Soviet Council of Ministers Poltava Region, 25 archival depart- No 274 from 04.04.1980 and the ments of the Regional State Adminis- Central Archival Board Decree No tration, 5 archival departments of the 67 from 07.08.1980 the name was City Council and more than 2 000 changed into the State Archives subdivisions of enterprises, institu- of Poltava Region. tions and organizations. 30 labour ar- On November, 1, 1988 aft er the chives, preserving 165 thousands cas- 144 liquidation of the Poltava Region es, function to secure the protection Executive Committee Archival De- of socio-legal interests of the citizens. The State Archives of Region

Total Volume Letter of of Funds commendation Th e State Ar- of the Expert Committee chives is the big- of All-Russian gest treasure-house industrial exhibition for the documents to the group in the history of of participants for the collection Poltava. Th e total of carpets and area of the archives plakhts (plakhta storehouses are is a part of 19 417 square me- national female costume). 1902 ters, the length of the rack shelves is 120 822 meters. – Documents preservation labora- According to the information tory; dated from January, 1, 2012 the State – Department of accounting and Archives of Poltava Region contained economic support. 6 900 funds, 1 307 414 cases, the oldest Our work is ingenuously infl uenced documents dating from 1693. by the socio-political processes, im- Description of Archival Holdings petuous development of scientifi c According to the Regulations on thought. Th e preservation of docu- the State Archives of Poltava Region, ments is becoming more secure, approved by the Head of the Poltava sources of constitution are changing, Regional State Administration num- registration system is improving, and ber 438 from November, 20, 2007, the archival sources are used wider and Archives is a subdivision of the Pol- more diverse. tava Regional State Administration, Th e Archives’ workers give organiz- accountable and controlled by the ing-methodical help, hold coordina- Head of the Regional State Adminis- tion of activity of 228 archival sub- tration and the State Archival Services divisions of the state power bodies, of Ukraine. enterprises, institutions, organizations Th e Archives consists of the follow- of all kinds of property concerning ing departments: archive work and offi ce work, provide – Department of Archives Coordi- adherence to the Law of Ukraine “On nation in the region, organizational the National Archival Fund and Ar- and analytical activities and human chival Institutions”. resources; Th e funds of pre-revolutionary pe- – Department of documents storage riod have been preserved in an insig- and inventory; nifi cant amount and form only 2 % of – Department of National Archival average funds quantity. Th e most an- Fund (NAF) formation and records cient documents are concentrated in keeping; the fund of K. Skarzhynska, the Polta- – Department of information and va Civil Governor Offi ce, the Poltava 145 documents use; Province Government, the Poltava Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Poltava Region. bodies, the nationalization process of Building 2 industry enterprises and landowners’ estates, the forced collectivization are concentrated. Since the period of the Nazi occupa- tion (1941–1943) the documents of gebiets kommissariats, town, regional and village circuits, public houses, state power bodies, some industrial Province Prison Inspection, the Pol- and agricultural enterprises are kept. tava and Lubny circuit courts etc. Th e archival documents concerning Th e cult institutions are represented damages during the Nazi occupation by the documents of the Poltava Ec- are concentrated in the funds of en- clesiastical Consistory, the Pyriatyn terprises, institutions, organizations Ecclesiastical Board Funds and the Pol- and in the fund of the Poltava regional tava eparchy of the Orthodox churches assistance to the Special Commission united fund. for determination of losses. Funds of fi nancial bodies and banks Th e data about the state of the Pol- are represented in an insignifi cant tava Region economy development amount. Th at is the Poltava Public during the post-war period are pre- House, the Lohvytsia Local Treasury, served in documents of the Poltava the Poltava department of the 1st Regional Executive Committee, its District State Bank, the Poltava Land departments, administrations, the Re- Bank, the Tax Inspector of the 1st Pol- gional plan, the Regional Statute Ad- tava Province etc. ministration and the Poltava Soviet of Th e events of the Ukrainian Revolu- Economy Funds. tion in 1917–1920 are partly refl ect- Process of restoration and state of ed in the documents of the Poltava agriculture are refl ected in the Re- Workers’ and Village Soviet of People’s gional Kolgosp Administration, the Deputies Fund. Documents of Poltava regional administration of agriculture, and Province revolution- machine and tractor station, repair ary tribunals and committees refl ect and tractor station, Radgosp, Kolgosp the anti-bolshevic movement in Pol- and the Agricultural Technique Asso- tava Region (1920–1921), the forced ciation documents. confi scation of grains by the Bolshevist Th ere are also documents of the Government. transport, trade, delivery, purveying Among the funds of Poltava and and cooperative organizations funds, Kremenchuk Province revolutionary funds of the municipal economy and committees, Kremenchuk, Poltava consumer services organizations in and Lubny governmental commit- the archives. tees and commissions, committees of Th e documents with information 146 poor peasants facts about the organiza- about medical and sanitary services, tion and work of local governmental epidemic-fi ghting, maternity and The State Archives of Region child protection etc. are concentrated Copy of the patent in the funds of health protection, so- of nobility issued cial security and trade union organi- by the Roman zations bodies. King Ferdinand to Stefan Raiser Th e documents of national and pro- in 1557 fessional educational establishments, cultural and educational institutions reveal the cultural life of the Region, the realization of reforms in the sphere of education, the development of amateur talent activities. photos of Poltava in the end of the Th e documents of the Party and XIX – the beginning of the XX centu- Komsomol bodies, the editorial board ry made by the famous photographer of the newspaper “Komsomolets Pol- Khmelevskyi have been preserved. tavshchyny”, the political departments Th ere are records of the O. Kovin’ka of the regional military registration reminiscences about the poet V. So- and enlistment offi ce and other insti- syura, the reporting from the Soro- tutions, the documents of the Party chynskyi Yarmarok 25th anniversary boards and commissions, the collec- celebrations, the ceremonial meeting tion of documents with information devoted to the 1100th anniversary about Partisan movement and under- of Poltava etc. ground activities during the War are Documentary fi lms of the fi lm stu- kept in the funds of the former Re- dio by Poltava Turbo-Mechanical gional Committee of the Communist Plant Palace of Culture and Kyiv Film Party Archives. Studio of News and Documentary Th e Archives partly includes birth- Films have been preserved. certifi cates, Poltava eparchy churches Scientifi c-enquiry library has confession lists, civil states regis- 18 450 books and brochures dating ter books of Poltava Region in the 1846–2011. XX century. Literature on Poltava land history, Th e documents of special funds reports of Poltava governors, surveys present important information. Th e of the agriculture, memorandum most signifi cant documents have books, reports of provincial ruling been presented by the great collec- bodies, the works of the Poltava sci- tor K. Skarzhynska, surgeon M. Skli- entifi c archival committee, materials fosovskyi, director of Poltava Gravi- of census of households in provinces. metrical Observatory Z. Aksentieva, Th ere are publications kept on archive selectionist S. Nana, musical expert and library works, world-wide history, S. Shevchenko, local lore expert sociology, philosophy, law etc. period- S. Paschenko. icals presented by the central and local Film-photo-phono-documents il- newspapers. Informational systems of lustrate social, political, economic and the library are indexes and thematic 147 cultural life of Poltava Region. Th us, catalogues. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Rivne Region

Historical Background Th e Historical Archives of Rivne Region began its activity in March, 1940 aft er the formation of Rivne Region, comprised of the former territories of , , , Rivne and districts. Since 1941 it was known as the State Archives of Rivne Region, then in 1958 renamed to the Rivne Re- gion State Archives. Since 1980 it was known as the State Archives of Rivne Region again. Total Volume of Funds 4 102 funds, 1 084 127 collection items (1774–2010);

Address: 26-a, Str., 4 457 collection items of scien- Rivne, 33014 (building 1) tifi c and technical documentation 8, Kavkazka Str. (1949–1999); Rivne, 33013 (building 2) Tel.: +380 (362) 23-42-61, 7 collection items of fi lm docu- 22-34-15, 23-41-74, ments (1944–1978); Fax: +380 (362) 26-69-76, 14 357 collection items of photo 23-42-54. E-mail: [email protected] documents (1917–2007); Web: archiv.rv.ua 141 collection items of sound re- cordings (1967–2011); Transport: Building 1 – trolleybus No 3 (to stop “Cooperative College”) , 5 collection items of video docu- minibus No 33, 46 (to stop ments (2006–2008). “Humanitarian University”) . Description of Archival Holdings Buiding 2 – near railway station Th e most ancient documents are Reading M – Th 9am – 6.15pm, the purchase deeds of XVI century room F 9am – 5pm on parchment that are kept in the hours of operation: Dubno district court fund, and two hand-written books – “Sluzhebnyk” Director: Mykola Grygoruk and “Psaltyr” of the same period. Th e main part of the archival doc- uments is comprised of documents pertaining to the period when the 148148 Region was a part of the Russian Empire (1796–1917). First of all, The State Archives of Region these are the documents of Building of the local self-governments: the State Archives City Council of Dubno, of Rivne Region. town councils and boards, 8, Kavkazka Str. documents of povit courts and courts of the peace, police headquarters, land surveying commissions, educational establish- ments, where is the infor- mation about social and economic situation of the regional population, devel- opment of handicraft and trade. consistory, religious offi ces, dean of- Documents in these funds include fi ces, and the Orthodox and Roman- acts releasing peasants from serfdom, Catholic churches. other pertaining to their refusal to Th e private funds of F. Shteingel, accept the prescribed document, or the founder of the fi rst regional mu- to pay redeemed payment, of their seum in Rivne Region in Horodok participation of political movements, Village contains documents collected particularly in the Polish rebellion in for the museum. 1863; there are also inspection regis- Th e funds of establishments, enter- ters of settlements of Rivne and Ko- prises and organizations of the Pol- rets districts. Th e fund of the Rivne ish State period (1921–1939) include district court contains the Offi cial documents of district headquarters certifi cate of 1841 by Ignatii Homych and departments, town and gmina Tsialkovskyi, the grandfather of Rus- governments, police establishments, sian science in the sphere of aerody- the Rivne District Court and pros- namics and rocket technique K. Tsi- ecutor’s offi ce, land and fi nancial olkovskyi. Th e collection of religious establishments. Th e condition of establishments’ document issued by social and political life of Rivne Re- the Vice-Governor of Kyiv in 1846, gion is completely represented in permitting the marriage of Halaktion these documents. Fund documents Korolenko and Ewelina Skurevych – of district village headquarters and the parents of Russian writer V. Ko- their departments contain statistical rolenko. Rivne gymnasium funds information about the work of indus- contain information about Kosto- trial enterprises, about the amount of marov’s and Kulish’s teaching at the population, schools, libraries; lists of gymnasium, and about Korolenko’s landowners, registry book organiza- studies in Rivne real gymnasium. tions, economic characteristics of Th e history of the religious and districts, road maps and others. church establishments is represented Some documents refl ect the activ- 149149 within the funds of Volyn theological ity of social, political and public orga- Archives of Ukraine

Heraldic patent Th e documents of the Soviet es- of the Lipskyi tablishments and organizations of family. 1833 the period of 1919–1920; 1939–1941 are represented by the funds of the Dubno District Executive Commit- tee, district, town and volost revolu- tionary committees, the funds of the Provisional Government in Rivne and executive committees of local councils. Information contained in docu- ments of World War II period and occupation of Rivne Region by the Nazis (1941–1944) is used very ac- nizations, such as “Prosvita”, “Soyuz tively in the Archives. Ukrainok”, “Soyuz Striltsiv Volynsk- First of all, these are documents ogo Ukrainskogo Obyednannia” the of the Rivne District Government, club “Ridna Hata”, Polish and Jewish district commissariats, the Rivne organizations and others. Burgomaster, some municipal and Interesting documents are found district governments, state em- in the collections of Rivne branch of ployment agencies, social and po- emigration syndicate (1929–1939), litical and public organizations (the in the Local Committee of Polish District Association “Prosvita”; Biographical Dictionary and in the Ukrainian Publishing House of the Volyn District Government Union of Newspaper “Volyn”, “Rivne Church Polish Teachers. Government” and others). Th e only personal fund of Polish Th ey tell us about the activity of period is the fund of Jacob Hoff man, occupied administration establish- historian, regional ethnographer, ments, about their functions, about deputy of the Polish Seim, head of the the organization of ghetto, the exis- Volyn District Government Union tence of concentration camps; they of Polish Teachers, author of “Guide contain information about trade book around Volyn”, and editor of and industrial institutions, compa- the almanac “Volyn Rechnyk”. In nies, schools, about the population this fund you can familiarize yourself and its distribution according to the with Hoff man’s biography, diaries, age and sex, lists of inhabitants, lists ethnographic records of his speeches of workers of diff erent institutions; in the Seim. Also of the great inter- information about citizens export- est are programs for the studying of ing forced labour to Germany. Th e Polish history and , investigation fi les of the Security manuscripts of articles about the his- Service of Ukraine in Rivne Region, 150150 tory of political parties, reports about collection of letters from citizens excavations in Volyn Region. exported to Germany for forced la- The State Archives of Region bour also tell us about the events of Letter of the this period. Volyn military governor to the Among the unique documents of Dubno provisional this period there is the “Collection police court about of Documents of the Organization of Felix Bankovskyi, Ukrainian Nationalists – the Ukrai- Yaroslavychi village landlord, who was nian Rebellion Army (OUN-URA)”; accused of wearing this collection contained editions of the Polish national resolutions, conferences and con- costume. 1864 ventions of “Great Assembly” of the OUN, originals of orders, reports, reviews of various commanders of subsections of the URA “Polissya Sich” under the command of -Borovets, of the group “North” under the command of Klym Sa- vura, as well as diaries of participants of those events. Th e documents of the funds of un- derground district committee of the pants of partisan movement of fa- Communist Party tell about parti- mous writers, journalists and others. and underground movement in Documentary photographs in the Rivne Region during World War II. Archives refl ect the main period of All the documents of the occupa- the history of Rivne Region. Th e tion period are declassifi ed. largest is the collection of documen- Th e post-war period (1944–2010) tary photographs where the famous is most extensively represented in persons of the Region are depicted; the archive. Th ese are the docu- among them are outstanding work- ments of the executive committee of ers of agriculture, social and cultural Rivne Region councils of deputies, sphere, builders, delegates of conven- their departments and government; tion, veterans of work and war. Th ere of regional executive committees are many photos of partisan and un- of village councils, large industrial derground struggles in Rivne Region enterprises, collective farms, educa- during World War II (mainly photo- tional establishments and public or- reproductions and photo-prints). ganizations. Th e funds of industrial Among the phono-documents are enterprises in Rivne Region, health the recorded memories of partisans- protection institutions, education, scouts and underground workers, re- science, culture and others are in- leases from the information bureau cluded among these documents. about Rivne Region, reports from the Th e Archives also contains private “places of grand events”, information funds of the participants of revolu- about amateur artists and performers 151 tion events, Rivne Region partici- and others. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Sumy Region

Historical Background Th e Sumy District Archival Ad- ministration was founded in No- vember, 1925 (the Sumy Local Ar- chival Administration since the end of 1930). Th e Sumy State Historical Archives with subordination to the Kharkiv Regional Archival Admin- istration was founded in March, 1932. Th e Sumy Regional State Histori- cal Archives became subordinated to the Regional Archival Adminis- tration of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Aff airs in January, 1939. Th e Sumy Regional Historical Ar- chives was renamed to the State Ar- Address: 49, Sadova Str., chives of Sumy Region in 1941. Sumy, 40009 Th e State Archives of Sumy Re- Fax: +380 (542) 22–07–90 gion was renamed to the Sumy Re- Tel.: +380 (542) 27–60–58, 22–53–52 gional State Archives by the Decree E–mail: archives–[email protected] of the Cabinet Council of the Ukrai- Web: daso.sumy.ua nian Soviet Socialistic Republic No Transport: Trolleybus No 1, 5 418 in October, 4, 1958. Th e new (to stop “13 School”) building of the regional Archives Minibus No 1, 10, 13, 15, 19, 55 with shelving capacity of 1 200 000 Reading M – Th 9am – 4pm, fi les was brought into the exploita- room hours tion in December, 1969 that gave an of operation: opportunity to liquidate its branches Director: Volodymyr Artukh during 1971–1972. Th e Sumy Regional State Archives was renamed to the State Archives of Sumy Region in August, 7, 1980. Total Volume of Funds Fund No 8 378, 1 297 002 fi les for the period of 1710–2011; 520 fi les of scientifi c and techni- 152152 cal literature for the period of 1965– 1985; The State Archives of Region

939 fi les of cinematographic fi lms Not to be for the period of 1974–1993; forgotten: 26 544 fi les of photographic re- Annotated guide/ cords for the period of 1902–2010; Compiled by Oksana Kovalenko. 2 025 fi les of sound recordings for Sumy, 2007 the period of 1960–2010; 758 fi les of videotapes for the pe- riod of 1983–2010. Description of Archival Holdings Th e chronological bounds of the archival documents are 1710–2012. the Archives contains the copies of the description of the new Kam’yane Town (1650), the information about Lebedin Town boundaries (1659), the copies of the charters given by the Tsar to the boyars children of Olesh- nyanskyi povit which were emit- ted in the last quarter of the XVIII century etc. Th erewith, the copies of universals of Hetmans I. Mazepa Th ere is a small collection of docu- and I. Skoropadskyi (1702–1720) on ments belonging to the period of the farmsteads are of the great interest. Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921. Th e period till 1917 is represented Among them one can fi nd such docu- by the funds of the local bodies of ments as the Acts of the Central Rada state administration, institutions of and diff erent leafl ets and programs of district and zemstvo government, parties that took part in the elections police and court bodies, industrial to the Constituent Assembly. enterprises and landowners estates, Th e basic part of documents in the tax, fi nance and credit institutions, Archives is concentrated in funds of educational institutions, institutions 1919–2000. Th e documents of the fi rst and organizations of religion, per- soviet organizations and Sumy orga- sonal landowners funds. nizations (revolutionary committees, Th e personal collections constitute executive committees, the Commit- a small group. Th ese are the per- tee of unhealthy country folk, military sonal funds of local landowners the committees, enterprises and organiza- Polubotkos, Kapnists, Romanovs, tions of that period) throw light upon Buharins, Hamaliyas, Ivanenkos, the social reforms both in towns and Kulagins, Kovalevskos, Kraso- villages as well as upon people’s opin- vskyis, of military fi gures (natives ions concerning the establishment of Sumy) such as army commander of the Soviet power. Moreover, these I. Fed’ko and P. Rybalko (copies documents lay bare the truth of the 153153 of documents). tragedy of slaughter of the prosperous Archives of Ukraine

Application coun- crees, orders, declarations, protocols written by try folk of searches and interrogations, lists writer Olena land- of prisoners of war, of partisans and Pchilka (Lesya owners of those people who were exported to Ukrayinka’s mother) to by the Germany by force. the Famine Th e substantial part of documents Executive and col- of the former Party archives can be Committee in lectiviza- found in the funds of district, region, order to return her house tion of city and town party committees, pri- that had been 1932– mary offi ces of diff erent establish- nationalized 1933. ments, institutions and organizations, In the including Komsomol organizations documents of the Organizing Com- of all levels. Th ey highlight the infor- mittee of Presidium of the Verkhovna mation about the establishment of the Rada of the Ukrainian SSR and the Soviet power, the diffi culties of the Sumy Regional Deputies Rada the new reforms, the repressive activities process of Sumy Region formation (1930–1950) and the rehabilitation in 1939 is revealed. From numerous of those having been repressed, the records and verbatim reports of ses- underground and partisan move- sions and meetings of the Regional ments in Sumy Region during the oc- Rada Executive Committee (January, cupation period, the reconstruction 1940 – June, 1941) and also from the processes in economy that had been documents of the Executive Commit- destroyed by the Nazi occupants. tee branch departments and offi ces Th e funds of the National Security one can get to know about the region- Organization of Ukraine contain in- al economical achievements that were formation about the former guest made before the Nazi occupation. workers and prisoners of the War. Th e information on the tragic events Th e extrajudicial criminal cases of of the occupation period (1941–1943) those having been repressed in the is contained in the funds of the re- 1920–1950s are now dropped. gional and city police offi ces, boards, Th e documents of the following magis- creative and public organizations are The charter trates, en- also stored in the Archives: the Sumy of Slobidsko– terprises, Regional Organization of Writers Ukrainian Eparchy organiza- Union of Ukraine (1985–2005), the about the consecration of tions and Sumy Regional Journalistic Organi- the Voskresenska public zation (1976–2000), the Sumy Re- Church. Sumy proper- gional Organization of Artists Union ties. In of Ukraine (1970–2000), political these doc- parties (1991–2005). uments Th e Archives is completed with the 154 we can documents of political parties and fi nd de- public organizations of Sumy Region. The State Archives of Region

Watching cinematographic fi lms, K. Rozumovskyi’s one can get to know about the econ- petition about the omy development, new buildings in gift certificate the Region, activity of such enterpris- testifying es as Sumyhimprom Inc., JSC Sumy Frunze NPO, Humotechnika Inc.; about visits of the foreign delega- tions to Sumy Region (1974–1989); about the culture, education, science and art development, planning and organization of public services in cit- ies and towns of the Region; about Sumy freemen such as M. Lushpa, V. Holubnychy; about the monu- ments erection. Application of Th e photographic records of Sumy P. Grabovskyi (the 1st half of XX century), group to the superintendent and individual photos of the par- police official ticipants of mass country folk move- of ments in Sumy District (1902), of the povit Revolution of 1905–1907 are shelved in archives. Th ere are many photo- graphic records that belong to the period of World War II: the photos of the leaders and participants of the underground organizations and par- tisan formations of Sumy, the photos of the Soviet Union heroes such as I. Kozhedub, S. Suprun, S. Kovpak, S. Rudnev, P. Rubalko, and some cap- tured photos of German, Hungarian reel documentary fragments, that and Italian soldiers. comprise the whole period of form- Th e following sound recordings ing and development of Sumy Re- are shelved in archives: of speeches- gion, video fragments about holding reminiscences of participants of the the memory of veterans, freemen, Revolution of 1917–1921, of the writers, artists, regional ethnogra- Civil War and World War II – of phers, materials about the students I. Kozhedub, thrice a hero of the protest movements against the unifi - Soviet Union, of S. Kovpak, twice a cation of three of Sumy, and others. about the President’s elections of Th e videotapes contain the frag- 2004, 2010, events of the Orange ments of historical events of the old Revolution, and also about the elec- 155 cities: Hluhiv, Romny, ; news- tions of 2006, 2007. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Ternopil Region

Historical Background Th e Ternopil Regional State Ar- chives started to work on November, 1, 1939, the day, when the Law about inclusion of the West Ukraine to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic has been adopted. Th e buildings of Dominican monastery were used to serve as archives. Th e Ternopil Re- gional State Archives was renamed into the Ternopil Region Historical Archives aft er the formation of Ter- nopil Region on December, 4, 1939 as a part of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1941 it was renamed into the State Archives of Ternopil Region. During World War II the most Address: 14, Sahaidachnyi str., valuable documents of the State Ar- Ternopil, 46001 chives of Ternopil Region were evac- Tel./Fax.:+380 (352) 52-26-18, uated. However, the considerable Tel.:+380 (352) 52-44-95, 52-39-70 part of them was left in Ternopil that E-mail: [email protected] caused incorrigible losses. Web: dato.te.ua At the beginning of July, 1941 Ter- Transport: Trolleybus No 1,2,5, 9, 10 nopil City and the Region became (to stop “Center”) temporally the part of Galychyna district. During their retreat the Ger- Reading M – Th 8.30am – 4.45pm, room hours man troops converted the building of operation: of the Archives into fortifi cations. It has been found out that on January, Director: Yurii Gumen PhD (History) 1, 1941 there were 123 funds (924 166 items) and only 72 funds (533 813 items) of them were saved. Activity of the State Archival De- partment of Ternopil Region was renewed aft er liberation of Ternopil by the Soviet troops in April, 1944. Organization of archival service was 156 fi nished in 1947. Since 1958 the offi - cial name of this institution was been The State Archives of Region the Ternopil Regional State Archives. Since 1980 the offi cial name has been the State Archives of Ternopil Region. Total Volume of Funds 3 668 funds 721 587 items of 1557– 2010; 1 794 items of scientifi c and techni- cal documentation of 1945–1996; 17 items of cinema documents of 1944–1961; 28 868 items of documentary pho- tographs of 1905–2005; part of Poland Kingdom to Austria, Quarters 2 138 items of photo documents of copies of brevets of the King of Po- of the State 1959–1997; land August III, decrees and edicts Archives 411 items of video documents of of Volyn spiritual consistory, copy of of Ternopil 1993–2011. documents of Suvorov about victory Region Description of Archival Holdings over the French army (1799), orders Archival Funds of the period till of -Kholmsk, Volyn spiritual September, 1939 consisted of docu- consistories (1834), permission for ments of Spiritual Cathedral of Holy T. Shevchenko to draw the views of Dormition Pochayiv Lavra (1557– Lavra and it’s surroundings. (1846), 1939), copies of Russian, Australian documents about gathering costs for and Prussian offi cial acts about the building the monuments of Khmel- First Partition of Poland, copies of nickyi and Kutuzov, protocols of Spiri- Catherine II edicts of adjoining the tual Cathedral meetings (1840–1925), regions to the Russian Empire in the documents about book-printing, sta- result of the Second and the Th ird tistical data about Lavra, its manors, (1793–1795), the enterprises and landed possessions, Manifesto of the Austrian Empress registers of serfs (1833). Maria Th eresa about inclusion of the Prescripts about organizing the ar- chive management in in April, Library Repository 1920, about renaming of the the Volyn Eparchial Archives Synod to the Volyn Spiritual Consistory, and also about legal status of Orthodox Church of Poland, lists of clergy are kept in the fund of the Volyn Or- thodox Spiritual Con- 157 sistory (1918–1919). Archives of Ukraine

ments, economic and geographi- cal descriptions, lists of industrial, handicraft , trade establishments and other like that were kept in the funds of district communities (1919–1939). Cultural life of that time is represent- ed in the documents of Kremenets, Terebovlia and Ternopil regional centers of “Prosvita” (“Enlighten- ment”) society. Th e Fund of the Ternopil Regional Executive Committee (1939–1941, Incunabula from Th e fund of the Ternopil Munici- 1944–1978), the fund of the Depart- the Archival pal City Council (1784–1918) con- ment of Statistics in Ternopil Region Funds of the XVI–ÕVIII cent. tains protocols about meetings of (1945–1975), the Department of city council members, information Health Care (1944–1960), the De- about the amount of hospitals, shops partment of Culture (1953–1981), in in Ternopil City, documents about which are kept documents about ac- history of Ternopil City, census and tivity and enterprises’ amount of dif- economic status of its population ferent branches of economics, about (1851–1917) and other documents. the state of health care and culture Plans and cadastral maps of the re- protection, work of organizations, gional villages and cities have been trade enterprises and servicing, capi- kept in the fund of the Ternopil Re- tal and communal residential con- gional Financial Directorate of the struction and etc. deserve attention Galychyna vicegerency (1826–1910). among the funds of the Soviet period. Funds of Kremenets Roman-Cath- In the fund of the Department of olic dean’s offi ce of the Volyn prov- Security Service of Ukraine in Terno- ince, the Orthodox parochial de- pil Region (1941–1953) there are the partments of the Kremenets district documentations about repatriated of Volyn province, Roman-Catholic citizens, captured cases connected and Greek-Catholic parochial de- with army servicemen, which were partments of Berezany, , in the Nazi captivity. Th ere are also Ternopil districts and Galychyna criminal extra-judicial cases of citi- vicegenercy are kept in the Archives. zens subjected to repression in 1939– Documents about the economic 1941, 1944–1950 years and presently status, social and political life of Ter- rehabilitated. nopil Region have been kept in the In the complex of documents of fund of the Ternopil Regional De- the former Archives of the Regional partment (1920–1939). Protocols of Committee of the Communist Party conventions of territorial communi- of Ukraine there are funds of re- 158158 ties, heads of the village councils and gional and city committees, regional village communes (gmina) depart- committees of the Communist Party The State Archives of Region and the Lenin’s Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, initial party and Komsomol organizations, political departments, regional military com- missariat, Machine Tractor Stations (MTS), railways, political sector, re- gional management of agriculture and so on. Th e Archives keeps the most part of funds about the personal ancestry of prominent fi gures of literature and art, scientists, publicists – natives of the region. tographic negatives of historical Archival repository In 1991–2009 the huge work has events 1905–1939 of activity of the been done on declassifi cation of doc- Galician Revolutionary Committee uments. 183 funds (37 471 deposi- (1920), perpetuation and honouring tory item) have been declassifi ed. the memory of freedom fi ghters of Th e fund documents of separate Ukraine, courage and heroism of sol- institutions were devolved for the diers of the Soviet Army, members of general storage and became available liberation struggle of the Organiza- for users (documents till 1939), of tion of Ukrainian Nationalists – the the occupation period (1941–1944). Ukrainian Rebellion Army (OUN- Fund documents of the Ternopil URA) (1941–1952), about atrocities Regional Executive Committee aft er and losses, which were committed by September, 1939, district executive occupants for the national economy committees, authorized for religious region, the main events of the period cults of the Council of Ministers of of redevelopment of the national the USSR in Ternopil Region, au- economy, development of industry, thorized for the Orthodox church, of agriculture, culture, education and the regional health department have public health, about international been declassifi ed. relations with Germany, Bulgaria, Photo-video documents (1961– Poland, Canada, celebration of an- 2009) kept in the State Archives of niversaries and notable events, elec- the Region refl ect the fi rst steps of tions in local councils, international consolidation of Ukrainian state- and national sports competitions ar- hood in Ternopil Region, cultural chitectural monuments of Ternopil and political life, social and legal Region, views of cities and villages, problems, celebration of anniversa- streets, landscapes of the Region. ries and events of our Region. Photo-documents of the Ar- Th e history, socio-economic and chives clarify of solemn events of socio-political life of the Region the life of Ternopil City and re- is refl ected in the photo docu- cords memories of participants 159159 ments (1905–2005). Th ese are pho- in World War II. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Kharkiv Region

Historical Background Th e history of the State Archives of Kharkiv Region began from 1880, the date of foundation of the Kharkiv Historical Archives by the members of the Historical and Philological Association of Kharkiv University. In 1920 it was changed into the Cen- tral Historical Archives attached to Kharkiv province national educa- tional committee; for the fi rst time the Archives has legalized its legal status and it has obtained monetary funds and staff . In November, 1926 was created the Kharkiv Territorial Historical Archives on the basis of funds of the Address: 41, Myronosytska Str., Central Historical Archives, and in Kharkiv, 61002 (building 1) 1932 was renamed into the Kharkiv 7, Moskovska Avenue, Regional Historical Archives, and Kharkiv, 61001 (building 2) Tel.: +380 (057) 700-53-41 in 1941 it obtained the name of the Tel./fax: +380 (057) 715-73-80 State Archives of Kharkiv Region. E-mail: [email protected] In 1958 the State Archives of Web: archives.kharkov.ua Kharkiv Region was renamed into Transport: metro (to station the Kharkiv Regional State Archives, “” (building 1) and since the 7th of August 1980 it and to station “Radyanska” (building 2) bears the name of the State Archives tram Nо 5, 6 of Kharkiv Region. (to stop “Korolenko Str.”) With the liquidation of archi- Reading M–F 8.30 am – 5pm val departments in 1988, the State room hours Archives of Kharkiv Region sub- of operation: mits to the Executive Committee Director: Lyudmyla Momot of the Kharkiv Regional Council of People’s Deputies of workers and becomes the authority of the Archives science on the territory of the Region. 160160 Today it is a structural sub-unit of the Kharkiv State Regional Admin- The State Archives of Region istration, and it is the unit that is ac- Building of the State countable to and is controlled by the Archives of head of the State Regional Adminis- Kharkiv Region. tration and the State Archival Service Moskovska of Ukraine. Avenue, 7 Total Volume of Funds Th e Archives includes: 4 708 funds, 2 340 727 units of issue (1739–2012); 12 754 units of issue scientifi c-tech- nical documentation (1780–1972); 6 327 documents of personal origin (1816–2011); 1 372 units of issue phono-docu- ments (1959–2011); 35 722 units of issue photo docu- ments (1945–2011); 912 units of issue cinema docu- founder V. Karazin, opening of veter- ments (1966–2011); inary college (1850) (since l873 it has 23 units of issue video documents become the institute), technological (1991, 1995, 2003–2006). institute (1885), feminine medical Description of Archival Holdings institute (1910), the fi rst gymna- Documents on the history of the sium (1805) and other educational Region by 1917 were collected in the establishments, about fi rst fl ights of funds of Chancery of Kharkiv Gov- S. Grisodubov, I. Zaikin, S. Utochkin ernor, the Province Administrative in Kharkiv are kept in the fund of the Board, the Kharkiv Municipal Coun- Chancellery of Kharkiv Governor. cil, province, district and zemstvo Th e Chancery of the Province Pros- boards etc. Th ese are the data about ecutor, police, senior manufactory the population, industry, agriculture, inspector, documents on factory and education systems of the Region etc. mining matters refl ect public-polit- Th e documents about the Patriotic War of 1812 Conducting workshops for and the Crimean War trainees with 1853-1856, creation and training in activity of military settle- the restoration ments in the Province laboratory in 1817, about improve- ment of Kharkiv and district places, develop- ment of culture and sci- ence, opening of Kharkiv 161 University (1805) and its Archives of Ukraine

ical and revolutionary movement in have been preserved in the fund of the provinces, relationships between the Public Chamber. landlords and villagers, and their Economic condition of the City of land litigation. Th e funds contain the Kharkiv and the province are refl ect- information about village reform of ed in the funds of the Public Cham- 1861, Stolypin’s land reform of 1906 ber, especially in the zemstvo con- and villagers’ attitude to the reforms. scription offi ces, excises, chancery Th e documents, which provide the of tax inspectors and others, where information about revolutionary ac- there are information about revenue tions in 1905–1907, the development and taxes of organizations of diff erent of strike movement in 1902–1916, departments and enterprises, about the activity of the Kharkiv Organiza- quantity and property condition of tion of the Russian Social-Democrat- diff erent sections of population, land ic Labour Party, are preserved. ownership, crops and crop capac- Archival documents refl ect the ity, matters about acquisition of land condition of industry and agriculture lots for building of distillery, sugar of the Province, legal and economic factories, tobacco processing plants, condition of the workers etc. information about their work, about Th e documents about census of activities of the banks etc. population of the City of Kharkiv Th e state of culture and health pro- and the Province of 1782–1856, lists tection in the Province is refl ected of inhabitants of separate centers of in the funds of cultural-educational population, other documents about establishments, educational insti- quantity and content of population tutions, medical, public and char- ity organizations, supervisory bodies, Building of the which execute control over them. State Archives of Kharkiv Th e fund of the Kharkiv Ecclesi- Region. astical Consistory gives informa- Myronosyts’ka tion about the condition of eparchy, Str., 41 separate charitable organizations and churches, gives data about construc- tion of church buildings in Kharkiv and in other cities and villages of Kharkiv Region, about condition of cloisters, about creation and activ- ity of Kharkiv collective organiza- tion (1800–1841), church-parochial schools. Th e period of history of the XX century is refl ected in the docu- ments of the epoch of the Ukrainian 162162 Revolution (1917–1921), the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), docu- The State Archives of Region ments, that character- During a reading ize the development of conference leading sectors of econ- omy; that reveal the condition of agriculture (the nationalization of the land, coercive col- lectivization, consolida- tion of collective farms, development of cattle breeding, horticulture etc.) organization and activity of indus- Th e moments of the Great Patriotic trial and trade enterprises, theatres, War have wide representation in the educational establishments are con- documents of the archive. Th e docu- centrated in the fund of the Kharkiv ments describe the participation of Municipal Council. Th ere are the citizens of Kharkiv in the War, their data about lists of census of popula- help to the front, the holding of evac- tion, prisoners of the War. uation and mobilization of popula- Th e fund of labour exchange in tion to the army, formation of the Kharkiv and Kharkiv Region has Party and Komsomol underground. the information about organization Th e period of German occupation of enumeration of specialists and of the territory of Kharkiv Region population on the whole for coercive (1941–1943) is represented by hinds move to Germany. of administrative organizations: Th e considerable part of the docu- military-economic command Wik- ments of the Archives constitutes Do, oblast and region land councils, the documents of the former Party region and village councils, labour Archives of the Kharkiv Regional exchange, where documents about Committee of the Communist Party arrangement of local control, col- of Ukraine (1919–1991). lection of taxes from the population Th e Archives keeps criminal cases by occupation power, have been on repressed citizens of Kharkiv Re- preserved. Th e documents about gion, which were given by the Ad- ministration of the Security Ser- Conducting vice of Ukraine workshops for students in the 1990s. of Kharkiv Also there are universities fi ltration cases of citizens of the Region, which stayed in Ger- many during 163163 1941–1945. Archives of Ukraine

The process of cathedrals, educational establish- creating digital ments, exchange, municipal hotels, copies and hospitals of pre-Soviet period; of documents the photos of participants of the revolution of 1905 and 1917, the participants of the march of 1900, 1905, 1917, memorable places in Kharkiv City and Kharkiv Region, which are connected with revolu- tionary events. Th e main part of cinema and photo documents consists of pho- Th e funds of special origin are rep- tos about: public-politic life, devel- resented in the archive by documents opment of the industry, agriculture of Ukrainian poetess and pedagogue in Kharkiv Region, railway, car, air, H. Alchevska (1895-1911); of lit- municipal transport, opening of the erary man K. Bich-Lubenskyi, the second Saltov line and putting into Kharkiv Governor M. Gribovskyi operation of new stations of the un- (1816-1828); of historian, professor derground; about condition, devel- of Kharkiv University M. Klochkov opment and organization of postal (1899-1919), of historian, Doctor telegraph, telephone, radio and TV of Science, Professor of Kharkiv connection; organization and con- University O. Roslavslyi-Petrovskyi dition and development of culture (1834-1870), of the Hero of the Sovi- and education: opening of new gen- et Union, academician of Academy eral secondary schools, activity of of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet boarding schools, evening schools Socialist Republic, Professor, Doc- and schools of working youth; ac- tor of Sciences, honoured worker of tivity of institutes of higher educa- sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet So- tion; individual and group photos cialist Republic, the Hero of Socialist of teachers and students of institutes labour M. Barabashov; of academi- of higher education; development of cian of Academy of Science of the science and technique; conferences Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, of biologists, sociologists, philolo- honoured worker of science of the gists, astrophysicists of the Academy Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Ukrainian and Soviet physiologist Socialist Republic, symposia of the V. Danilevskyi and others. heads of the institutes, All-Union Cine and photo documents of seminars of economists etc. the Archives refl ect public-politi- Th e library of the archive enumer- cal, economic and cultural life of ates 37 910 books and brochures, Kharkiv Region. Th e Archives keeps 8 900 magazines, 4 932 fi lings of 164 the following: photos of buildings newspapers, 4 546 special editions of railway station, squares, streets, (posters, placards, leafl ets etc.) The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Kherson Region

Historical Background Th e history of the State Archives of Kherson Region dates back to April, 2, 1921, when the Kherson District Special Archival Commission was founded that was under subordina- tion of the Mykolaiv Government Archival Commission, since 1922 – under the Odessa Government Ar- chival Administration. In November, 1925 was founded the Kherson Dis- trict Archival Administration which was reorganized in the Municipal Archival Administration in Octo- ber, 1, 1930. On February, 26, 1932 the Archival Administration was

Address: 3, Radyanska Str., reorganized into the Kherson State Kherson, 73003 Historical Archives, which since Tel./fax: +380 (552) 22-58-95, March, 5, 1938 was subordinated to 22-57-33, 22-43-74, 26-69-66 E-mail: [email protected] the Mykolaiv Regional Archival Ad- Web: kherson.archives.gov.ua ministration attached to the People’s Transport: trolleybus No 1, 4, 9, 11, Commissariat of Internal Aff airs. minibus No 6, 9, 34, 35 Upon foundation of Kherson (to stop “9 Sichnya Str.”), minibus No 48 Region in March, 1944, Kherson (to stop “Dekabrystiv Str.”) branch of the Mykolaiv Regional State Archives was reorganized in the Reading M – F 8am – 5pm room hours State Archives of Kherson Region of operation: and on October, 4, 1958 it was re- Director: Viktor Borovyk named to the Kherson Region State Archives. According to the Order of the Central Archival Administration attached to the Council of Ministers of the USSR from August, 7, 1980 No 67 the Kherson Regional State Archives was renamed to the State Archives of Kherson Region. Total Volume of Funds 3 306 funds, 802475 collection 165 items (1721–2011); Archives of Ukraine

Information and with skippers about the prepa- about the ration and transportation of bread division of and forage during the war of the year land in Nogais settlements, 1812. Karakui and In the fund of the Kherson Gov- Mustapoi in ernment Administration there are Dniprovskyi orders, reports and correspondence povit of Tauridy gubernia. 1832 about organization of commission for claims adjustment of the Geor- gian settlers to the local authorities (1808–1810), and about land regula- tion for Jewish settlers (1850–1851). Th e fund of the Kherson (Novorus- sian) Government drawing offi ce is of great scholarly interest for the study of the history of colonization of South Ukraine. Th e fund also con- tains copies of orders of the emper- ors, the Senate, and the Novorussian 87 collection items of scientifi c and Government Secretariat; warrants technical documentation (1969– for the granting and division of land 1992); to the dignitaries Bezborodko, Ko- 831 collection items of fi lm docu- chubei, Trubetsky, Bagration, and ments (1960–1992); Hannibal, and to landowners, foreign 30 311 collection items of photo colonists, and former Zaporizhzhian documents (1905–2010); Cossacks (1756–1886); documents 482 collection items of sound re- concerning the lands of the Crimean cordings (1966–2008); peninsula (1798–1804), the founda- 134 collection items of the video tion of the Cities of Gryhoropillia documents (1989–2008). (1792), Balta (1797–1798), Yelisave- Description of Archival Holdings thrad (1752), fund the settlements Th e oldest documents are pre- of Kherson Guberniya (1777–1860), served in the fund of Voskresenska the fi rst book about boundaries of Church of Beryslav Town in manu- Kherson (1782) whit is unique draw- script books which contain copies of ing (1796), informationabout the orders of the Tsar, the Holy Synod, construction of the monument to the and the archbishop of Kyiv, Galych English philanthropist John Howard and Malorussia 1721 to 1734. In the in Kherson (1822–1828); autographs funds of the secretariat of the gov- of the Governor-General of Novorus- ernor of Kherson there are lectures, sian duke de Richelieu (1815). reports, correspondence of governors Correspondence between the 166 with provision department, Kherson Ukrainian historian D. Yavornytskyi and Odessa landowners, merchants, and social worker O. Rusov (1886) is The State Archives of Region preserved in the fund of the Kherson Part of the plan of Stepanivka Government District Council. farm on Financial institutions are presented Kherson land in the fund of the Kherson Gov- with the grave ernment Chamber, where decrees, of British philanthropist resolutions, orders concerning the and humanist conduction of the population cen- John Howard. sus, the revision of state property; of 1866 the Kherson Guberniya, and audi- torial registers of the state, monas- tic, peasants, serfs, craft smen, mer- chants, colonists, and townsfolk are preserved. Th e greater portion of the documents of the Regional State Archives is comprised of documents of the modern era (1917–2004). Of special note among the documents of the Ukrainian Revolutionary period (1917–1921) is the fund of the Kher- son Guberniya Executive Committee and the transfer of confi scated lands of working class, village and soldier and property to them, the struggles deputies, which contains informa- against peasant movements, and the tion about the support of the autono- confi scation of church valuables. In mous Ukraine and the recognition the fund of Dniprovskyi Povit Revo- of the Kherson Guberniya as an in- lutionary Committee are documents tegral part of the Ukrainian People’s signed by M. Kulish, the Ukrainian Republic. writer who was the head of the Olesh- Th e funds of district, volost, city, ky Town Council (1918). land, village revolution committees, Th e funds of the committees of of executive committees attached to poor peasants reveal the carrying out the working class, of village and the of compulsory collectivization and its Red Army soldiers’ deputies com- consequences, and the liquidation of mittees and their subdivisions refl ect private village properties. the process of formation of the Soviet Information about famines in Government in Kherson Region. Th e Kherson Region in 1921–1923, resolutions, commands, protocols of 1932–1933, 1946–1947 is contained special authorities throw light upon in the documents of the funds of So- the struggle against the Austrian- viet and party institutions, all levels German occupants, the armies of of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Denikin and Wrangel, the actions of and committees and commissions for insurgent armies of Makhno, Tiuti- aiding the starving. unnyk, and Angel, the organization In the funds of region executive 167 of agricultural communes and artels committee and city executive com- Archives of Ukraine

mittees are the founders of the nature reserve documents Askania-Nova. that refl ect Th e photo documents collections administra- consist of reproductions showing tive and terri- general view of the City of Kherson, torial changes the launching of the fi rst torpedo- in Kherson boat destroyer, the emblem of Olesh- Region, the kyi (1844, 1893), of a group of Spanish restoration of children at the home for children in the national Kherson (1935), of the construction economy af- of Kherson Cotton Plant, Oil-Pro- ter the War, cessing Plant, and Kakhovka Hydro- construction electric Power Station; the fl ora and of Kakhovka fauna of the nature reserve “Askania- Hydroelec- Nova”; the drama dedicated to the The State tric Power Station (1951–1955), and 200th anniversary of Kherson (1978), Archives of Kherson Region Kherson Cotton Plant, the largest in the opening of the International Fes- Europe (1952–1962), ship production tival “Tavriyski Igry” in Kakhovka at Kherson Shipbuilding Plant, activi- (1997–1999), the meeting of the ties of Azov-Syvasky nature reserve; writer O. Honchar with the citizens construction of Verkhnioinhulets and of Kherson, and of the international Krasnoznamiansk irrigation systems. literature and arts festival dedicated Among the declassifi ed funds of the to Т. Shevchenko entitled “In the new, Nazis occupation which are of special free family”. note is the fund of the Kherson dis- Th e archival sound recordings trict commissariat, which contains and video documents preserve the documents about the fi ght against the records of meetings and gatherings partisan movement, of the resettle- dedicated to the 50th anniversary ment of the “Volksdeutsche”, ques- of liberation of Kherson from the tionnaires, and lists of citizens forcibly Nazi occupants (1994), the anniver- sent to Germany. sary of Independence Day in Ukraine Unique collection of maps and (1992), the 500th anniversary of the plans contains almost 2 500 collec- Ukrainian Cossacks in Kherson Re- tions of items, among them maps of gion (1992), the 50th anniversary of such cities as Bobrynets, Yelisave- the deportation of the Crimean-Ta- thrad, Nikopol, Odessa, OleksAn- tars (1994); recordings of the reminis- dryia, Kherson. cences of citizens of Kherson about A special group of documents is the Holodomor of 1932–1933, life preserved in the collection of private during the Nazi occupation and com- funds covering the period 1884 to pulsory resettlement of people for 2005, among which are documents work in Germany, the Rakhrmaninov 168168 of scientists, local historians and All-Ukrainian show-competition of writers as well as the family funds of young pianists etc. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Region

Historical Background Th e formation of the Archives in Podillya began in April, 1922 with the creation of the Kamyanets- Archival Administration. Since 1925 it was called the Kamy- anets District Archival Administra- tion, in 1930 aft er the liquidation of districts it was called the Kamyanets- Podilskyi Local Archival Admin- istration. In 1932 at the Vinnytsya Regional Executive Committee the Regional Archival Administration was founded and the Vinnytsya Re- gional Historical Archives, the Ka- myanets-Podilskyi, Proskuriv, Berdy-

Address: 99, Grushevskogo Str., chiv, Historical Archives were Khmelnytskyi, 29000 (building 1) subordinated to it. 4, Th eatrical Str., In September, 1937 was founded Khmelnytskyi, 29000 (building 2) Tel./fax: +380 (382) 76-47-39 Kamyanets-Podilskyi Region and the Tel: +380 (382) 79-75-59 Archives was renamed into the State E-mail: [email protected] Historical Archives of Kamyanets- Web: dahmo.gov.ua Podilskyi Region. In 1938 it was sub- Transport: trolleybus No 4,10 ordinated to the Archival Adminis- (to stop “Regional Library”), tration of the National Commissariat trolleybus No 7, 7a, 14 (to stop “Philharmonic Society”) of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Reading M–Th 9 am – 5 pm During World War II the Archives room hours of operation: was evacuated, but only the docu- ments of the Communist Party and Director: Volodymyr Baidych the soviet authorities. During the PhD (History) transportation all the funds of the Proskuriv Historical Archives were destroyed. In 1947 the Regional Archives was transferred in submission of the Min- istry of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrai- nian Soviet Socialist Republic in Ka- 169169 myanets-Podilskyi Region. In 1954 Archives of Ukraine

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with the renaming of the Region into Archives of Ukraine on April, 14, 2003 Khmelnytskyi, accordingly the Ar- all the documents of the National Ar- chives was renamed into the Khmel- chival Fund, of liquidated the Kamy- nytskyi Regional State Archives in anets-Podilskyi Municipal Archives Kamyanets-Podilskyi Town and since was transported to the Khmelnytskyi 1980 it has been the State Archives Region State Archives. of Khmelnytskyi Region. In 1990 the Total Volume of Funds Archives was transferred from Kamy- 8 105 funds, 1 949 300 preserved anets-Podilskyi to Khmelnytskyi into units (22 961 of linear meters) over the a new specialized typical building. years of 1598–2005; On April, 9, 2003 the work of the 258 units of preserved scientifi c and Kamyanets-Podilskyi Municipal Ar- technical documentation over the chives was stopped and on April, 10, years of 1967–1990; 2003 the fi re broke out in the prem- 8 units of preserved fi lm documents ises of the archives, having destroyed over the years of 1944–1993; and damaged 101 225 fi les of fi ve the 43 595 units of preserved photo doc- most valuable funds of the history of uments over the years of 1917–2010; Kamyanets-Podilskyi Province since 435 units of preserved phono-doc- the end of the XVIII – the beginning uments over the years of 1957–2010; 170170 of the XX century. In accordance with 427 units of preserved video-docu- the order of the State Committee of ments over the years of 1990–2008; The State Archives of Region

75 funds of personal Diploma of the Podilsk origin. Provincial Description of Archival Deputy Holdings Commission Th e Archives preserves about the nobility. 1801 the funds of the local state authorities and the gov- ernment of the pre-Sovi- et period, which contain the decrees of the Senate, the circulars of the minis- tries, the circulars of Kyiv, Podillya, Volyn governor generals; the information about the quantity and the state of the of the railway station in Kamyanets- industrial enterprises of the province, Podilskyi (1912), the reorganization agricultural land tenure, the state of of Proskuriv real college into Olexi- the construction, the development ivska real gymnasium (1912); the of the medicine, education, library main books of Kamyanets-Podilskyi science; the information about politi- Town administration, the originals of cal exiles; the documents and letters the letters of Olexandr I, M. Kutuzov about the construction of bridges, P. Bagration. dams, roads, mills, prisons, churches; In the funds of court authorities, the lists of bourgeois Jews who were procurator’s offi ce, police such docu- subject to military duty. ments are kept: the decrees of the Th e institutions of the class, county Senate, the circulars of the ministry and town self-government include: of justice and of Podillya chamber the decrees of the emperor and the of criminal and civic court; the fi les Senate, the circulars of the ministries, about the land arguments, etc. In the the circulars of Kyiv, Podillya, Volyn funds of educational and health care governor generals; the decrees of the institutions such documents are kept: Podillya Province Government about the circulars of the ministry of public the holding elections to the authorities education, the decrees of M. Pyrogov, of the town self-government (1872– the trustee of Kyiv educational district 1875); the fi les about the preparation (1859–1861), the correspondence of the holding noble elections; the lists about the opening of women’s board- of the merchants of the province ac- ing schools, handicraft colleges and cording to guilds (1832); the resolu- public schools (1830–1919). tions and plans of the construction Th e funds of religious institutions of the railway Proskuriv – Kamy- include: the decrees of the Senate and anets-Podilskyi (1883–1908); the fi les the Synod; the registers of the ses- about the opening of Vinnytsya land sions of the diocese administration; 171 surveyors” college, the construction the information about the state of Archives of Ukraine

The document the formation of the soviet about the power on the territory of confirmation of the nobility the region, the political title issued by state of the districts (1923– the Polish King 1925), the Ukrainization Stanislav. 1802 of the soviet apparatus (1926–1927), the state of sugar industry (1928), the records and resolutions of the sessions and meetings of the Regional Executive Committee of the Coun- the diocese, churches, church lands, cil of People’s Deputies, the working the quantity of religious workers and prospects of the regional executive parishioners in the districts of the dio- committee (1945–1994), the docu- cese; the documents of the churches: ments about the migration of the citi- metrical books, confessional notes, zens of the region to the other regions marriage descriptions etc. (1799– of the UkSSR (1944, 1949–1957), the 1916); the registers of the sessions of elections of the deputies of all levels. Podillya clerical Roman-Catholic dio- In the funds of court and national cese administration, metrical books security authorities such documents; of Roman-Catholic churches (1798– are kept: the orders of the regional 1920). court department, the documents of Th e documents of the funds of the Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Shepetivka local state authorities and the gov- district courts; the criminal and civic ernment of the soviet period refl ect cases, the reports on the activity of the court department and the board of The State lawyers; non-judicial cases of the re- Archives of habilitated citizens (1925–1975,1998). Khmelnytskyi Region. Th e funds of the government of Building 1 national economy contain the docu- ments about the development of the local industry; the condition of the housing fund of the towns of the re- gion; the tests of the economic activ- ity of the plants. Th e funds of the or- ganizations of agricultural, wood and water economy elucidate the state of collectivization in the village. In the funds of the institutions of health care, physical culture and sport 172172 the documents about the state and de- velopment of the medical aff air in the The State Archives of Region region are preserved. Reading-room Th e funds of the insti- of the State Archives of tutions of education, Khmelnytskyi culture and art con- Region. 2012 tain the documents about the state and development of these branches, about the work of professional and technical schools, institutes. Th e fund of the Khmelnytskyi Re- gional Committee of the CPU include mute documentaries “Tracking the the documents about the industrial, Retreating Enemy” which reproduce agricultural and transport construc- the retreat of the Nazi army to the tion in the region, the mobilization south of Proskuriv, there are also a of labour force for the building in the sound documentary “To the Memo- Urals, for the building of Donetsk ry of the Hero” (1958) and a sound mines, the selection and migration coloured documentary “Proskuriv- of specialists and collective farmers Khmelnytskyi”. to the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Th e photo-documents reproduce Socialist Republic (1944), the repa- the public-political and social-eco- triation of Polish, German and Czech nomical life of the region, the war ac- national minorities (1938). tions (1941–1944), the underground 57 funds of personal origin of fa- and partisan movement. A part of mous people and descendants from the photos shows the main points Khmelnytskyi Region are kept in the of the reconstruction of the national archives. In 1993 the funds of the in- economy of Khmelnytskyi Region. stitutions and organizations of the So- Th e phono-documents have pre- viet epoch before 1941 and the period served a live voice of I. Shestyd- of the Nazi occupation, the funds of esyatyi who was a participant of the the institutions up to 1965 were de- revolt on the battleship “Potyomkin”; classifi ed. the voices of comrades-in-arms of Th e scientifi c and technical docu- M. Ostrovskyi; the memories of the mentation consists of the schemes of eyewitnesses of starvation in 1933; land arrangement of collective farms, the voices of witnesses of repressions the draft s of some products of Pol- in 1937–1938; the events of World onne porcelain plant, the schemes of War II. construction of the building of the Th e video fi lms tell about the activ- State Archives of the region etc. ities from the life of the Archives and In the archives 8 fi lm documents about the presentations of the funds 173173 are preserved. Among them there are of personal origin. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Cherkasy Region

Historical Background Th e fi rst government archival insti- tution, the Central National Archives, was founded in Cherkasy in April, 1919. Th e Cherkasy District Archives was founded in 1925. With the abolition of districts in September, 1930, the Cherkasy District Archives was re-organized into the Cherkasy District Archival Administration in October, 1930. In 1932, it was reorganized into the Cherkasy State Historical Archives, which became a branch of the Kyiv Region State Archives in 1941. It in- curred great losses during the Nazi occupation of Cherkasy. Of 289 000 Address: 244-a, Blagovisna Str., documents fi led in the Archives by Cherkasy, 18015 January, 1, 1941, 277 000 were lost. Tel./fax: +380(472) 37-30-26 With the establishment of Cher- Tel: +380(472) 37-30-26, 37-53-28 kasy Region on January, 7, 1954, the E-mail: [email protected] State Archives of Cherkasy Region Web: ck.archives.gov.ua was created on the bases of the previ- Transport: bus No 9, trolleybus No 8 ous branch. Th e Archives began op- (to stop “Pasterivska Str.”) erating on May, 18, 1954. As well the Archival Department of the Ministry Reading M–F 9am–6pm room hours of Internal Aff airs the Administration of operation: of Cherkasy Region was organized in May, 1954, and the Communist Party Director: Tetiana Klymenko PhD (History) Archives of the Cherkasy Region Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was founded in August, 1954. In accordance with the State Archival Funds Regulations of the Soviet Union of October, 13, 1958, the Archives was renamed to the Cherkasy Regional State Archives, 174 and was known by that name from 1958 to 1980. By the Order No 67 of The State Archives of Region

August, 7, 1980 of the Chief Archival Pieces of artistic Administration attached to the Coun- of the register of cil of Ministers, the Archives was births of Illinska named the State Archives of Cherkasy Church. Korsun Region. town Total Volume of Funds 7 665 funds, 1 121 526 (17 273 me- tres) from the period 1709 to 2011; 5 793 items of scientifi c and techni- cal documents from the period 1943 to 1985; 103 items of fi lm documents of the period from the period 1927 to 1989; 15 325 items of photo documents from the period 1913 to 2009; 324 items of phono-documents from the period 1964 to 2010; 42 items of video documents from the period 1994 to 2010. Description of Archival Holdings Documents of the pre-1917 period can be found in the of local adminis- trative and judicial institutions, police and public prosecutor bodies, justice Pieces of artistic of the peace intermediaries, notaries, paintings of institutions of district and zemstvo the register of governments, local self-governing births of Illinska Church. Korsun bodies, educational establishments, town and electoral commissions for the elections to the Verkhovna Rada. Th e state of economy is refl ected in the documents of such funds as the dis- trict Treasury, surveyors, joint stock companies, factory administrations, forestry, and economic institutions. Th e Archives also keeps documents (records) of ecclesiastical boards, charities, monasteries, churches. Th e Archives documents for this period also contain some information about the size of population, property status, structure and occupations; the system of taxation, peasant obliga- 175 tions; landowners’ estate; the size of Archives of Ukraine

arable land among landowners’ and toral boards. An extensive number peasants; crop harvests; the state of of documents is also contained in the stock-breeding; the growth of cities; funds of judicial bodies, courts, pub- municipal economy; road networks; lic prosecutor departments, and state commerce, lists of plants, factories, inspection bodies. and artisan establishments, as well as A great number of documents in their owners, number of workers, and the archives deal come from planning amount of production; and a myriad and statistics bodies and fi nancial in- of statistics, including the All-Russian stitutions; district councils of national census. Th e documents refl ect the economy, the Cherkasy Council of Na- state of education, health care, the tional Economy and its boards, plants, way in which epidemics were treated, factories, industrial associations, the social processes, actions against the Vatutino mine administration, en- existing political system, and national- terprises and organizations of trans- political events in Cherkasy Region at port and communication, construc- the beginning of the XX century. tion and architecture, and municipal While the documents of pre-World economy. Th e state of the agrarian War I period have been partly pre- sector of the economy is represented served, the overwhelming majority of in the funds of administration bod- the Archives documents are funds of ies, enterprises and organizations of the period aft er 1917. agriculture, water industry, and for- A considerable part of the Soviet estry. Th e socio-cultural development period documents are contained of Cherkasy Region is highlighted in in the funds of government institu- the funds of health care administra- tions and administrations; regional tions and institutions, social security, executive committees, districts, po- education and science, culture and vits, municipalities, volosts, village arts, and mass media. Th ere are a large councils; branch administrations and number of funds from cooperative or- departments of government bodies; ganizations and trade unions. Revolutionary committees and com- A prolifi c number of important mittees of poor peasants; and elec- documents are found in the funds of the public associations Building of the and organizations that State Archives comprised the Cherkasy of Cherkasy Region Regional Committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Young Com- munist League, the dis- trict city committees of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Lenin Young 176 Communist League of Ukraine, 1 700 primary The State Archives of Region party organizations, and region struc- Repositîries of the State tural formations of public associa- Archives of tions, artistic, scientifi c unions, soci- Cherkasy Region eties make up an important large and in size complex of documents. Th e documents of the Regional Com- mittee of the Communist Party of Ukraine contain information about partisan under ground movements in the Cherkasy Region from 1941 to 1944. As well, the Archives preserves documents resulting from KGB ac- tivity in Cherkasy Region, criminal cases of non-judicial agencies con- cerning rehabilitated persons, and cases concerning citizens who had been deported for forced labour to Nazi Germany. Parish registers of diff erent reli- of the great Ukrainian writer I. Ne- gious denominations and registry chui-Levytskyi; of the eminent fam- offi ce documents prior to 1924 are ily of scholars and manufacturers, kept in a number of funds. Docu- the Symyrenkos; of Ensign-general ments of the Nazi occupation period, of the Ukrainian National Republi- i.e. records of district village councils, can Army, Grygir Tiutiunnyk; and district police departments, village well-known community activist elder councils, community proper- S. Yefremov. Th ere are also auto- ties, forestry, newspapers editorial graphs of the hero of the Patriotic boards, form a separate part of the War of 1812, M. Rayevskyi; of writer funds. Th ere are also private funds Ivan Le; academicians A. Krymskyi, of prominent people of Cherkasy Re- D. Yavornytskyi, and V. Hrush gion, as well as collections of docu- (M. Hrushevsky’s great-grandfather). ments about the Great Famine of Here one can also fi nd records of 1932–1933, repressions of the 1930s T. Shevchenko’s relatives in the “In- to early 1950s period, and others. ventory of landlord Engelhard’s es- Th e Archives post-1917 docu- tate” of 1796; the charter granted ments generally and in a well-round- by king Stanislav-August to the free ed fashion depict the modern history Town of Cherkasy; the charter of of the Cherkasy Region, the state awarding the great public fi gure of of its economy, social and cultural Kamianska Council of the Northern sphere, the ecology of the Region, association V. Davidov a golden sa- and social and political process in ber for courage displayed in the Pa- the region. Among the most valuable triotic War of 1812; and the master 177 documents there are birth records plan of Cherkasy from 1815. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Chernivtsi Region

Historical Background Th e State Archives of Chernivtsi Region is a direct heir of the Land Ar- chives of Bukovyna, which began its activity on November, 1, 1907. When World War I broke out, the activity of the Land Archives was terminated and at the beginning of November, 1918 the archive was abolished as well as the other state establishments of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Aft er Bukovyna had joined Ru- mania the Commission was cre- ated, which in the reorganized form operated till 1940. On November, 1, 1940 the Chernivtsi Regional His- torical Archives began its activity, Address: 20а, Stasyuka Str., the work of which was broken off by Chernivtsi, 58029 (building 1) World War II. 1, Textylnykiv Str., Th e State Archives of Chernivtsi Chernivtsi, 58009 (building 2) Tel.: +380 (372) 57-86-54, Region renewed its activity on April 57-86-55, 57-36-77 6, 1944. Later its name was changed Fax: +380 (3722) 52-30-29 to the Chernivtsi State Regional Ar- (building 1) Tel.: +380 (372) 54-50-01, chives (1958–1980), later – the State 54-49-99, 54-74-90 (building 2) Archives of Chernivtsi Region (since E-mail: [email protected] 1980). Web: cv.archives.gov.ua Total Volume of Funds Transport: building 1 – trolleybus No 5 4 113 funds, 1 527 090 paper docu- (to stop – “Street Stasyuka”) ments (12 915 l. m.) during 1775– building 2 – bus No 9, 20, 26 (to stop – “Street Avangardna”) 2011; 2 053 u. p. scientifi c and technical Reading M–Th 9am–6pm, F 9am–5pm documentation; room hours of operation: 1 072 cinema documents (during 1940, 1944–1993); Director: Dmytro Zhmundulyak 66 045 photodocuments (during PhD (Linguisties) 1912–1996, 2009–2010); 613 phono-documents (during 178178 1960–1988, 2009–2012); 10 video-documents (during 2011). The State Archives of Region

Austrian Ceasar Franz Josef’s welcome patent on the occasion of opening of Chernivtsi University. September, 30, 1875

Description of Archival Holdings landowning boundaries, marking off Th e Archives contains the docu- the estates between the inheritors; ments of establishments, organiza- bills, agreements, certifi cates refl ect- tions and enterprises, which existed ing political and economical life, the on the territory of the North Bukovy- activity of the Orthodox Church in na and the former Khotyn district of Bukovyna, foundation of monaster- Bessarabiyan Region of Russia from ies; reports on quarrel investigations 1775 till the period of the reunion between landowners, the nobility with the Ukrainian SSR, and those of patents, testaments, historical, eco- Chernivtsi Region of Ukraine (1940– nomic and geographical character- 1941, 1944–2011). istics of villages and towns of Bu- Th e oldest documents of the Ar- kovyna; information about relations chives are the collections, which have of our land with the other countries, been compiled by the Bukovinean building of towns, fortresses, work of State Archival Commission and handicraft shops. Franz Vikenhauser, researcher of the On the other hand, these docu- history of Bukovyna and they date ments are manuscripts and copies in back to the XV–XVIII century, when the Old Moldavian and Old Slavonic Bukovyna was a part of the Molda- languages with translation into Ger- vian Principality. Th ese documents man and Rumanian. Among the old- are the patents of the Moldavian est documents of the Archives are: the voevodes and landowners about the patent copy of the Moldavian land- proprietary rights of monasteries and lord (1418), concerning the property private individuals to use land, prem- acknowledgement and boundary de- ises and pastures, documents on termination of the estates Oprysheny buying-selling procedures of immov- and Pryvoloky (German translation 179179 able’s, determination of collective from Old Moldavian); a parchment Archives of Ukraine

Archival A lot of papers are those of the repository with funds of the Bukovinean Regional documents Administration, the Executive of the Soviet period Committee of the Bukovinean Par- liament, metropolis of Bukovyna, the Chernivtsi City Magistracy, re- gional court and district administra- tions, educational, health protection institutions, students communities. Th e Rumanian period funds are rich in papers of the Minister-dele- gate of presidium bureau, the Min- istry of Internal Aff airs Secretari- ate, the State Minister authorizing Bukovyna, the Second Ministerial purchase deed privilege of the Mol- Directorate of Bukovyna, district davian Prince Petro to Ion Lupu on prefectures, materials on Romaniza- the village of Cherkanul (1546) writ- tion of the region. ten in the Cyrillic alphabet. Th e documents of the judicial and Th e basic stages of economic and investigating agencies of the secre- social life development in Bukovyna tariat of the Departmaent of Justice till the reunion with Ukraine are (1918–1940), administrative courts represented in the documents of of Bukovyna, land tribunals, the XVIII century. Th ey refl ect two his- quaestor of Chernivtsi circuit police torical periods of the Region: being a inspectorate, village courts spotlight part of Austria (since 1774), Austria- Buildings of the Hungary (1867–1918) and joining State Archives royal Rumania (1918–1940). of Chernivtsi Region Th e Austrian period funds of es- tablishments, such as the Military Administration of Bukovyna (1775– 1786), the Halych Government Au- thorising Bukovyna (1775–1861), the Bukovinean Regional Administration (1786–1853) elucidate public relations in the region, the order of governing Bukovyna (1778–1820), municipal (1826) and rural (1822–1847) com- munities, the questions of includ- ing Bukovyna to Galychyna and its governing (1786), the description of 180180 Bukovyna state borders, administra- tive – territorial organization. The State Archives of Region the totalitarian regime, Khotyn re- bellion (1919), socially-democratic, communist, Ukrainian national-lib- eration movement, and also anti-fas- cist struggle of the population during World War II. Among the rest there are funds of the Russian Empire establishments, existed on the territory of Kho- tyn district of Besarabian Region (1812–1917) and Chernivtsi Region of World War I period (1914–1917). Th e Archives includes the records recollections of the former ghetto Erzherzog about the temporary establishment and concentration camps prisoners. Eugene’s patent on of the Rumanian-German occupa- To this group belong over 10 thou- construction of tion (1941–1944). sand fi ltering cases received from the the monument Documents of the Soviet period National Security Administration of commemorating (1940–1941, 1941–1944) are rep- Ukraine in Chernivtsi Region and the 200th anniversary resented in the funds of the sovi- citizens, who were sent by force to of the 41st ets, executive committees and their work in Germany and Rumania or Austrian administrations and departments, once being in concentration camps. regiment with court units and prosecutor’s offi ces, Th e funds of Austrian historian headquarters in Chernivtsi. April, economic establishments. Franc Adolf Vikengauzer (1809– 26, 1901 Of particular importance are 1891); Austrian historian and pro- documents concerning nationaliza- fessor of Chernivtsi University tion of land, banks, industrial enter- Ferdinard Cuglayer fon Blyamen- prises, trading establishments; col- tal (1829–1906); Rumanian his- lectivization of agriculture, creation torian and public fi gure I. Nistor; of new enterprises, development of Bukovenean poets – P. Ambrosij, science, education and culture. І. Kutenya; the teacher and jour- Funds of Chernivtsi Region, dis- nalist Ilarij Karbulyckyj; the doctor trict and city committees of the and sculptor O. Schevchukevuch; Communist Party of Ukraine, trade the national artists of Ukraine – unions during 1940–1941, 1944– V. Sokurka, P. Mikhnevych, H. Ya- 1992 reveal history of Chernivtsi Re- nuschevuch; the national deputy gion as a part of the Ukrainian SSR. from , professor of Cher- A separate group of funds of the nivtsi State University, the former province government of Bukovyna ambassador from Ukraine in Ru- documents, regional commission munia L. Sandylyaka; the prominent on the assistance of German fascists Ukrainian archeologist – B. Tymos- crimes investigation on the terri- chyk and the funds of the other no- tory of Chernivtsi Region, units of table people are singled out among 181181 Rumanian police and gendarmerie, the personal stock. Archives of Ukraine

The State Archives of Chernigiv Region

Historical Background The Chernigiv State Regional Archives is one of the best pre- servers of historical documen- tary monuments on the history of Ukraine. The big work on gathering archival materials was carried out by the Chernigiv Provincial Scientific Archival Commission which existed dur- ing 1896–1919. In September, 1921 in struc- ture of the Ukraine National Commissariat of Education was formed the Main Archival Department. In Chernigiv the Provincial Archival Department Address: 2, Mstyslavska Str., was formed in May, 1922. Dur- Chernigiv, 14000 (building 1) ing January-March, 1923 the 52, Pytnitska Str., Chernigiv Provincial Historical Chernigiv, 14000 (building 2) Tel.: +380(462) 60-86-11, Archives has been organized. 69-95-53, 60-85-81 In connection with liquidation E-mail: [email protected] of province in August, 1925 the Web: –arhiv.gov.ua Chernigiv Provincial Historical Transport: Building 1: Archives was reorganized into trolleybus No 1 the Chernigiv District Historical (to stop “Th e ”) Building 2: trolleybus No 1 Archives; in November, 1926 – (to stop “Prospect Myru”) into the Chernigiv Regional His- torical Archives. Reading M–Th 9am–6pm room hours In 1932 on the basis of the Re- of operation: gional Historical Archives and the Municipal Archival Depart- Director: Raissa Vorobei PhD (History) ment of the Chernigiv Regional was formed the State Historical Archives. In 1940 the Chernigiv Regional Historical Archives was renamed 182182 into the Regional State Archives of UNKVS in Chernigiv, and in The State Archives of Region

1941 – into the State Archives Chernigiv Region in the cities of of Chernigiv Region. The State and . In 1989 de- Historical Archives in the cities partments of the Archives in the of Nizhyn and Pryluky are reor- cities of Nizhyn and Pryluky were ganized since 1941 in branches of reorganized into branches. regional archives. In 1997 branches of the State Ar- With the beginning of the Nazi chives of Chernigiv Region in the occupation part of archival ma- cities of Nizhyn and Pryluky were terials of the State Archives of reorganized into departments. In Chernigiv Region was evacuated 2004 archival documents from to Ulyanovsk. On November, the Pryluky Department of the 1, 1943, the Archives restored State Archives of Chernigiv Re- its activity. gion were moved to Chernigiv. In 1958 the State Archives Total Volume of Funds of Chernigiv Region were re- 102 216 funds, 183 195 units of named to the Chernigiv Regional storage (20 136,72 linear meters) State Archives. from XVII century to 2011; In 1980 the Archives was re- 59 units of storage of the scien- named to the State Archives of tific and technical documenta- Chernigiv Region. Since 1984 tion for 1811–1916, 1964–1969, branches to the Archives have 1971–1985; been reorganized into depart- 5 units of storage of film-doc- ments of the State Archives of uments for 1957, 1958, 1973;

Facade of Building 1 of the State Archives of Chernigiv Region

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The genealogic skyi, J. Somka, tree of K. Rozumovskyi, Laskovs’kyi- Tendetnykiv documents with the stamps of the Chernigiv Regimental Offi- ce, the Regi- ment of Malo- rosia Troops and others. Unique docu- ments which have an exclusive cultural value are kept in the fund of Nizhyn Greek Magistrate (1710–1872). In the fund of the Chancery of the Chernigiv Civil Governor are kept G. Ku- 32 518 units of calculation of tuzov’s, T. Shevchenko’s letters. documentary photographs for Imperial letters, the legal codes 1906, 1910–1937, 1941–1945, of the Hetman K. Rozumovskyi 1949–2006, 2007–2011; about granting military grades 142 units of phono-documents are collected in the Chernigiv storage of 1960–2006. Provincial Scientific Archival Description of Archival Commission. Holdings The complex of documents of In the State Archives of the pre-Soviet period is concen- Chernigiv Region are concen- trated in funds: bodies of the trated documents from the end governmental and public admin- of the XVII century item till istration, the commissions on now. affairs of elections to the Verk- The most ancient documents hovna Rada, the Constituent As- (XVII – XVII centuries) are kept sembly; local state power bodies, in the fund of the Chernigiv zemstvo and class self-manage- Province Nobile Deputy Assem- ment; court, the Office of Public bly. Among them are legal codes Prosecutor and investigatory es- 184184 of Hetmans D. Mnogogrishnyi, tablishments; military-adminis- I. Samoilovych, I. Skoropad- trative establishments; proviant The State Archives of Region and food establishments; chari- lution (1917–1921) the funds of table establishments and societ- the Chernigiv Province Com- ies, public organizations, trade missar of the Central Rada and unions; financial, tax establish- the Province Senior Man of the ments, banks; establishments of Ukrainian State are of worthy. the account and statistics; bod- The basic part of documents is ies of town-planning, capital concentrated in the funds of the construction and means of com- Soviet period: local bodies of munication, connection; the in- government and public admin- dustrial and agricultural enter- istration, justice, court and the prises and associations; controls Office of Public Prosecutor, po- the state property, land manage- lice and state security; military- ment and a forestry; national administrative bodies; mass education, press, institutions of media; controls a national econ- public health services, religious omy, sciences, educations and establishments and societies; in cultures, public organizations; personal funds and collections. institutions of public health Very informative are the funds services, physical training and of bodies of national educa- sports, the religious organiza- tion and educational institu- tions; in personal funds and tions. The history of religion collections. and church establishments is re- The complex of documents vealed by funds of spiritual con- about the Nazi occupation pe- sistories, the Pryluky Spiritual riod is informatively saturated Board and other. and is significant on its volume. Among the documents of the Orders, announcements of Ger- period of the Ukrainian Revo- man occupational authority, lists

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of inhabitants of regional settle- ing documents contain collec- ments, taken to Germany have tions: “The Chernigiv Provincial been preserved. Scientific Archival Commis- The Archives keeps the funds sion” (1660–1905): the unique of the Chernigiv Regional Com- letter on Ekaterina II parch- mission on the History of World ment from December, 31, 1771 War II, the Regional Commission is worthy; “Plotting and plans” on investigation of the crimes ac- (1811–1916); “Chernigiv Region complished by Nazi invaders, fil- in documents, photos, drawings” tration affairs on the persons who (1917–1979) etc. have been compulsorily taken out The collection of documents to Germany (1941–1943). on soldiers-Afghans includes Economic characteristics of the the documentary art story about Region are kept in the funds of V. Shevchuk written by his fa- the post-war period after clear- ther, an album with photos of ing of the Nazi occupation, data soldiers-Afghans which were on restoration. The Archives pre- lost during operations. serves the funds of the Party and In the Archives documents on Komsomol bodies the documents film carriers – cine, photo, pho- of which contain the informa- no-documents are kept. Among tion on political and economic film documents are films about situation in the Region, under- demonstrations of workers in ground-guerrilla movement in Chernigiv, documentary film Chernigiv Region (1941–1943). about innovator of Chernigiv Rich on sense are personal Region. funds and archival collections. Documentary photographs rec- The funds formers are – scien- reate events in Chernigiv Region tists, writers, actors, anticipants during World War II, in particu- of wars, artists, regional special- lar, guerrilla movement, activ- ists, other persons, whose life ity of the underground organiza- and activity is connected with tions, the damage caused by Nazi Chernigiv Region. invaders to a national economy The complex of documents and the population of the Region. which has come to archival col- A large number of photos show lections is sated and interest- the preservation and commemo- ing. The most ancient monu- ration of heroism of the Soviet ments are kept in the Collection soldiers. Documentary photo- of handwritten books, ancient graphs have fixed monuments printed books (1630–1911). of a history and architecture of Among them are religious Chernigiv. books: the Apostle (1630), the Phonodocuments have dis- 186186 Bible, the Gospel, the Psalter, played a political and cultural manuscripts in Latin. Interest- life of the area. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives in the City of Kyiv

Historical Background Th e Kyiv State Archives was cre- ated in 1932 as the Kyiv Municipal Archives. In 1958 it was renamed into the Kyiv Municipal State Ar- chives completed with the changing staff of archival materials. In 1962 the status of the State Archives in the City of Kyiv was increased to the archives with the stable staff of re- cords. Since 1980 the Archives has been working under the title of the Kyiv State Archives. According to the decision of the Kyiv Municipal Council on Depu- ties No 584/744 from 10.07.2003

Address: 23, Olena Teliga Str., the Archives is a structural subdi- Kyiv, 04060 vision of the Kyiv Municipal State Tel./fax: +380 (44) 440-54-16, Administration, which is under re- +380 (44) 440-63-52 E-mail: [email protected]–city.gov.ua sponsibility and control of the Kyiv Web: kiev–arhiv.gov.ua Municipal Council and the State Transport: metro (to station Archival Service of Ukraine. “Dorogozhychi”), Total Volume of Funds trolleybus No 16, 19, 22, 23, 27 (to stop “Vylitsya Schyseva”) 1 665 funds, 974100 preservation units of 1645–2012; Reading М–W 10 am – 6 pm 3 242 preservation units of the room F 10 am – 4 pm hours of operation: scientifi c-technical documentation of 1919–1983; Director: Vira Kupchenko PhD (History) 1 756 preservation units of photo documents of 1834–1919; 40 preservation units of phono documents of 1954–1988. Description of Archival Holdings Th e Archives store documents from the XVII to XXI centuries. Funds of the pre-revolutionary pe- riod include documents of munici- pal self-government bodies and city 187187 authorities, such as the Magistrate, Archives of Ukraine

Application of ment and acknowledgment of the Symon Petlura rights and privileges to the city and for a position of its inhabitants (1645–1764); Senate’s archivist in Decrees, circulars of the Kyivskyi, a department on borders at the Podilskyi and Volynskyi Governor- Kyiv Municipal Generals and of the Kyiv Civil Gov- Administration. ernor; the magistrate’s decisions May, 27, 1908 and reports of sessions, magazines of the municipal Rada and offi ces, magistrate and Rada voters fi les, lists of voters according to their prop- erty and social status requirements, data about the assignment of the merchant and bourgeois status, re- sults of the auditor’s registries, lists of the citizens. A lot of documents display history of the city development. Th ere are many circulars, decisions, letters on opening and activity of the hotels, brickworks, sugary plants, breweries, the Municipal Rada, the municipal cigarette and match factories, mills, offi ces, and in particular: copies of a retail network of shops, about lay- grant charters of the Polish kings, ing roads, construction and opera- Russian emperors and Zaporizhzhy- tion of the city tram and a cable car, an hetmans which testifi es to assign- the organization of bus movement. Others refl ect the history of the city Mykhailo streets illumination by gas and elec- Bulgakov, a student of a tric lanterns, fortifi cation of slopes medical faculty of the Dnipro river, the restoration of St. Volodymyr of the Golden Gates, the erection University of of a monument to Bogdan Khmel- Kyiv. 1916 nytskyi, gathering of donations on constructions of monuments to Taras Shevchenko (1907–1914) and Mykola Gogol (1908–1914). In the State Archives in the City of Kyiv re- positories one can fi nd records about granting of the ground area for con- struction of public buildings, such as a military hospital (1807), Gostynnyi 188188 Dvir (1809–1811), the Kyevo-Baltska railway (1869), the Kyiv Polytechnic The State Archives of Region

Institute (1897), the municipal the- Decision of atre, the St. Volodymyr University of the Executive Committee of Kyiv (1834) etc. Kyiv Municipal Among the valuable archival docu- Council of ments there are layouts of the City of Workers’ Kyiv and its districts during diff erent Deputies. May 27, 1969 periods. Th e oldest layout is dated back to 1799. Th e number of documents provide information about Kyiv educational establishments, such as St. Volody- myr University of Kyiv, conserva- toire, Offi cer Training Corps, Higher Women’s Courses and a lot of vari- ous institutes (polytechnic, commer- cial, teaching, judicial, for noble girls ones), technical colleges, seminaries, private and state gymnasia. Documents of the Kyivo-Podylskyi and the Kyivo-Pecherskyi clerical offi ces, the Kyivo-Vasylkovskyi Ro- man-Catholic Dean’s offi ce, the Mil- itary-Mykolaivskyi, Petropavlivskyi and Volodymyrskyi cathedrals, and of the eight churches are of great value for the genealogical and bio- graphical researches. Researchers are greatly interested in archival information which is contained in the Orthodox, Ro- man-Catholics and Old Believers (or Starover) metric books of XIX – the beginning of XX century and – of the government bodies and lo- Birth metric book of the vital records of civil registration of- cal authorities (the Kyiv Municipal Roman-Catholics fi ces about birth, marriage, death in Council, the Kyiv Municipal State in Kyiv. 1857 1919–1934 in Kyiv. Administration and state adminis- Th e archival materials of the pe- trations in the districts of the City riod from 1917 are represented of Kyiv); by the documents of the funds of – of municipal departments (of sta- institutions, organizations, enter- tistics, the major construction work, prises, educational establishments the local industry, the city develop- of the period aft er 1917. Th ey are ment, culture, building industry and 189189 as follows: architecture, trade); Archives of Ukraine

aft er R. Glier, choreographic, river industry, medical, pedagogical etc.); – of the institutions of health care, physical training and sports, social security, the judiciary, public organi- zations (the society “Knowledge”, the municipal council of trade unions, the Committee of the Red Cross Society) etc. Funds of personal origin contain interesting collections of documents. Among them there are documents of Building of the famous Ukrainian scientists, rectors State Archives – of divisions of the city and munic- of the Kyiv universities, public fi g- in the City of ipal districts (fi nancial, of health care, ures O. Antonov, M. Bilyi, V. Bobrov, Kyiv education, trade etc.); U. Vetrov, G. Dobrov, V. Zamlinskyi, – of joint-stock companies (the O. Plygunov, V. Strelskyi and others. “Ukrcable” plant, “Kyivguma”, “Th e For the reference research with the Kyiv Plant of the “RIAP”, “Th e Re- purpose of protection of the human ductor Factory”, the factory of elec- rights and satisfaction of citizens” trical devices, the “Bolshevik”, the inquiries there are funds of munici- “KINAP”, “Th e Ukrainian Jewellers”, pal councils of the people’s deputies, “Th e Kyiv Motorcycle Factory”, the councils of the municipal districts and “Budshlyahmash”, the “Darna”, “Th e of other executive bodies of power. It Confectionery Factory named aft er is the basis for offi cial replies to a ques- K. Marx”, “Th e Kyiv Shipbuilding and tion about research on assignment of Ship Repair Factory” etc.); the ground areas to citizens, granting – of production associa- of habitation, building of private and tions (“Kvazar”, “Electronmash”, public constructions, about award- “VEDA”, “Kyivprylad”, named aft er ing by medals “For valorous work S. Korolyov etc.); during the Great Patriotic War”, “For – of state enterprises (the plant defence of Kiev”. Funds of the higher “Arsenal” etc.); and secondary educational establish- – of educational establishments, ments enable to fi nd out years of citi- such as the national and state univer- zens study in them. Archivists give out sities (of culture and art, “Th e Kyiv information about the working life of Polytechnic Institute”, of building and citizens on the basis of archival funds architecture, agricultural, pedagogi- of plants, factories, construction com- cal, medical, linguistic, of civil avia- panies etc. Funds of notarial offi ces tion, economical and others), techni- contain copies of the contracts of buy- cal schools (shipbuilding, energetic, ing and selling, granting of habitations 190190 of radio electronics, topographic, in- and certifi cates of the rights of the dustrial and others), colleges (named property. The State Archives of Region

The State Archives in the City of Sevastopol

Historical Background Organisation of the archival work in Sevastopol began aft er the establishment of the Soviet power in the City. In July, 1921 the District Department of the Crimean Archives was created in Sevastopol. Th e District Archives was created by the Decree of Sev- astopol Executive Committee on April, 1, 1925. Since 1929 the Sevastopol Dis- trict Archival Bureau was en- gaged in archival work in the City. In January, 27, 1935 the Sevasto- pol District Archival Bureau was transformed to the Sevastopol Branch of the Central Archival Address: 64, Heroes of Stalingrad Avenue, Administration of the RSFSR. In Sevastopol, 99059 Tel.: +380 (692) 41-66-45, February, 10, 1938 the Sevasto- 41-67-25 pol Branch was reorganized to E-mail: [email protected] the Sevastopol State Archives by Web: gosarhiv.sev.net.ua the Order of the Central Archival Transport: trolleybus No 10, 14, 18 MANAGEMENT of the RSFSR. (to stop “Bukhta Omega”) On March, 29, 1941 the Branch of the Central State Archives of Reading М–F 10 am – 5 pm the Crimean ASSR was created room hours in Sevastopol. But in connection of operation: with beginning of World War II Director: Tetyana Kuznetsova and the Nazi occupation reor- ganization was not conducted. Sevastopol was liberated on May, 9, 1944. Th e Act about the loss- es infl icted by the invaders was made in November, 14, 1944 by the commission of the depart- ment of State archives of people’s commissariat of internal aff airs 191191 of the Crimean ASSR. As a result Archives of Ukraine

Letter of the Chief of the Sevastopol City State Ad- Commander of ministration; it is responsible to the Black Sea the Sevastopol City State Admin- Fleet and the istration and the State Archival Black Sea ports M. Lazarev Service of Ukraine. Th e Sevastopol (with his City State Archives was awarded personal an honorary diploma of the Sev- signature). May, astopol City Council and the Sev- 11, 1848 astopol City State Administration and “Commemorative Token of Merit” (2001, 2011), honorary di- ploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2006). Total Volume of Funds 471 funds, 233 978 units, 1794– 2011; 17 145 units of photo docu- ments, 1854–2011; of air and artillery bombardments 1 423 units of phono documents, of the City in 1942, the docu- 1964–2011; ments bearing dates of 1920–1938 1 968 units of video documents, of 320 funds (95 357 units) were 1996–2011; destroyed. 10 funds (5 000 units) 2 units of fi lm documents, 1967, were evacuated. Aft er re-evacu- 1983; ation these funds were taken on storage from the Central Archives Military paper of the Crimean ASSR. Th e Sevas- prepared by the team of the topol Archives resumed its work Black Sea boat. on April, 3, 1945. May, 1, 1942 By the Decision of the Coun- cil of Ministers of Ukraine from October, 4, 1958, the Sevastopol City Archives was referred to the category of fi xed composition and worked as the department of the Sevastopol City Executive Com- mittee. On May, 11, 1962 the Sev- astopol City Archives became an independent establishment. Since 1980 the name of the establish- ment is the Sevastopol City State 192192 Archives. Th e Sevastopol State Ar- chives is a structural subdivision The State Archives of Region

10 376 units of scientifi c and technical documents, 1944–1995; 1 355 units of micro-photo-copy collections of the documents about the history of Sevastopol from the funds of other archives, 1783–1960. Description of Archival Holdings Th e greatest part of archival doc- uments about the development of Sevastopol up to 1917 was lost dur- ing the period of 1941–1942. Today the data concerning Sevastopol be- fore the revolution is concentrated in 32 partially preserved funds. Th ere is information about the con- the fund of Balaklava Georgievskyi Fragment from dition of municipal agriculture, in- fratry. Th e most valuable are the the church dustry, trade, medicine, education, fi les with the letters of Admirals book of All population in the documents of F. Bellingsgausen, M. Lazarev, Saints cemeterial local government and administra- P. Nakhimov, V. Kornilov, V. Isto- church with the record of tive authorities – offi ce of the chief min. Informative in its content birth of of the city administration, munici- is the fund of Chersoneses fratry K. Borodavkina pal magistrate, municipal council, which include the plans of church (Pertusenko). court, and the chief of police offi ce. lands, documents of construction 1900 Th e valuable ones are the plans of of St. Volodymyr’s cathedral, the Sevastopol of 1886, 1887, 1891, history of Chersoneses bell and 1909. Th e funds have preserved data about archaeological excava- the documents about the trial of tions. Church funds of Sevastopol the sailors – the participants of the deanery contain parish registers. Black Sea Fleet uprising of 1912, Th e period of establishing the about the presence of allied troops Soviet power in Sevastopol is pre- in Sevastopol during the period of sented by the documents of the intervention. Archive funds have city, district, and village revolution- the documents about the economi- ary committees’ funds: protocols cal development of the city before of panel sessions, orders, instruc- the revolution: about the activity of tions of the departments of provi- the port, customs, the construction sions, fi nances, education, health- of the railroad and tram. Activity care, transport. Th ere is data about of religious cult establishments is the agricultural taxing in kind, presented by the funds of Sevas- struggle with the Famine, demoli- topol deanery, orthodox churches tion of monasteries and churches. and monasteries. Th e earliest docu- Th e funds of workers and peasant’s 193193 ments saved in archive were kept in police, declassifi ed fund of investi- Archives of Ukraine

archive to the fullest extent. Th e Archives keeps the funds of state authorities and local self-gov- ernment, city, district and village councils, city and district state ad- ministrations), municipal govern- ments (fi nances, healthcare, cul- ture, statistics, communal service, capital development, trade, archi- tecture and urban development, industry, labour and social pro- tection). Th e funds of educational departments are presented by the Destroyed gating committee of the Sevastopol documents of the universities, in- building of Council of military and workers stitutes, colleges and technical col- the Panorama deputies contain the documents leges. Archival funds keep the doc- “The Defence of Sevastopol about the arrests, charges, searches uments of healthcare departments, 1854–1855”. conducted in the city in 1920s. scientifi c establishments, cultural 1949 Th e development of agriculture, and educational organizations, in- political, cultural and social pro- dustrial enterprises, enterprises of cesses, which took place in Sev- transport and communications, astopol before 1941, found their agricultural and forest sectors, refl ection in the documents of the project and building organiza- funds of the city, district, and vil- tions, public utilities, public service lage councils: reports, plans, en- establishments, trade enterprises terprises inspection reports, edu- and foodservice industry. Th e Ar- cational departments, healthcare, chives also preserves the docu- reports about the development of ments of city prosecutor’s offi ce Sevastopol Region. Th e activities of and district courts. pre-war Sevastopol enterprises are Th e Archives stores the funds of presented by the funds of Sevasto- social organizations: the City mu- pol commercial seaport, Sevastopol tual aid society, the Society of en- marine plant named aft er S. Ord- vironment protection, protection zhonikidze. of historical and cultural monu- Th e events of the Great Patriotic ments, the Society of inventors and War in Sevastopol are refl ected in effi ciency experts, the Society for the address lists of the citizens of Ukrainian Defence Support, the the city in the period of the Nazi Sevastopol organization of “Duty” occupation, documents of the com- search associations, documents mittees investigating Nazi occu- of trade unions. Personal funds, pant’s atrocities. which are presented by the docu- 194194 Th e post-war period of Sevas- ments of the famous people of the topol history is presented in the City, are also the sources of study The State Archives of Region of the City history: public men T. destroyed city. Th e special place Alyoshina, P. Rogachyov, histori- in the photo fund is occupied by ans S. Strezheletzkyi, E. Venikeev, the photos connected with the V. Krestyannikov, I. Antonova, history of the Black Sea fl eet: the writers E. Korovin, M. Lezinskyi, portraits of the commanders, pho- artist G. Brusentzov. Informative tos of the ships, military parades. are the collections of memoirs of Th e history of post-war develop- the participants of revolutionary ment of Sevastopol is refl ected by events in Sevastopol, veterans of the pictures of press photogra- the Civil and Great Patriotic War. phers A. Bazhenov, M. Pokatilo, Th e Archives stores 12 collec- S. Muravyov. tions of micro-reproduction of Phono documents are rep- documents from archival funds of resented by the records of the Russia, Ukraine devoted to the his- veterans who took part in the tory of Sevastopol of 1783–1960, defence of Sevastopol in 1941– which are the additional source 1942 and post-war reconstruc- of information about the history tion of the city, and it is system- of the City. atically fulfi lled by the records Collections of audio visual docu- of informational programs. ments of the Archives refl ect dif- Funds of video documents refl ect ferent aspects of the history of Sev- the most signifi cant events of polit- astopol. Th e largest is the fund of ical, social and economic, cultural photo documents. Pre-revolution life of the city in the period of in- period is presented by the repro- dependence of Ukraine. Records of ductions of the works about the the City Council’s sessions, cultur- Crimean War of 1854–1855 by the al and informative programs, news English photographers R. Fanton items of the city television and and D. Robertson, photos of the radio broadcasting companies are buildings and panoramic views also kept in store in the Archives. of the City. The Panorama Th e consider- “The Defence able part of the of Sevastopol photographs re- 1854–1855”. fl ects the period 1973 of the defence of Sevastopol in 1941–1942 and its liberation in 1944: mili- tary operations, the ships of the Black Sea fl eet, 195195 the sights of the Reading-room of the library of the Branch State Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

196 Branch State Archives

Th e Branch State Archives of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs оf Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Aff airs of Ukraine

Th e Cartographic and Geodetic State Fund of Ukraine

Th e Branch State Archives of Hydrometeorological Service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine

Th e State Geological Information Fund of Ukraine (Geoinform of Ukraine)

Th e Branch State Archives of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine 197197 Archives of Ukraine

The Branch State Archives of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e Staff Archives of the Kyiv military district (1945–1992) was established on August, 1, 1945. Th e Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (1992–1997) was created on the basis of the Kyiv Military District Archives and disbanded 300th separate military cargo Convoy Company. On August, 20, 1997 the Central Archives of the Min- istry of Defence of Ukraine was renamed into the State Branch Ar- chives of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. Th e Archives is subor- dinate to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. Address: 1, Str., Total Volume of Funds Kyiv, 01010 Tel./fax: +380(44) 280-28-72 4 770 funds, 438347 units stored E-mail: [email protected] during 1807–2011; 3 268 units stored, video mate- Transport: metro (to station “” ) rial; Reading М–F 9 am – 6 pm About one third of all docu- room hours ments are classifi ed. of operation: Description of Archival Holdings Director: Vasyl Turchyk Th e Archives stores documents of the following objects: Kyiv military district staff directorates, Armies staff s, military units and military installations of the dis- trict, units of central (Moscow) subordination, deployed on the district territory (1946–1992), Commander-in-Chief of the ter- 198198 ritorial troops (1807–1808), bat- talions, directorates, courts, rear Branch State Archives

Merit certificate of the Presidency of the Verkhovna Rada of the USSR

Report of General-Colonel A. Lopata regarding sending Ukrainian military vessel “Getman Sagaydachnyi” to Mediterranean ports. 1994 evacuation posts of South-West- ghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Egypt, ern front (1914–1918), military Korea, Sierra-Leon, Yugoslavia, commissariats (draft offi ces), Kyiv Kosovo and others (1953–2010). province directorates of military Also there is correspondence of products supply (1918–1922), mil- the central apparatus of the MOD itary hospitals (1843–2000). of Ukraine and GS of the AF of Till 1990 documents of long Ukraine with state power bodies term (more than 25 years) and regarding the AF of Ukraine activ- permanent storage were being ity (1992–2008). transferred to the Central Archives Th e Archives stores documents of the Ministry of Defence of the of military units and installations USSR (Podolsk, Moscow region), that participated in Chornobyl Military Medical Museum of the Nuclear Power-Station accident Ministry of Defence of the USSR consequences relief operations in and the Rocket (1986–1990). As a rule, holdings Troops Archives in Moscow. consist of personnel documents: Archival holdings possess docu- military units and installations ments of military units and in- commanders orders, alphabet stallations (only those located registers of military and civil per- on the territory of Ukraine), partici- In one of archival storages pating in events in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), separate military units, par- ticipating in interna- tional peacekeeping operations on the territories of other 199199 states – Angola, Af- Archives of Ukraine

Book of Honor of military-educational establish- of military units ments – diploma copies, credit reg- of the AF of isters, student cards, state exami- Ukraine. 1990s nation commissions documents, education plans, programmes, re- ports; historical references (forms), liquidation acts of disbanded mili- tary units and installations, fi nan- cial documents; protocols of the Party and Komsomol meetings and conferences, political depart- ments work plans; documents on innovative and inventive propos- als; reports on military discipline and combat readiness of military units and installations etc. Th e col- sonnel of the AF, personal fi les of lection of orders and regulations of military personnel, personal fi les the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, of candidates and members of the the Chief of the General Staff of the Communist Party of the UkSSR, AF of the USSR and Ukraine and document of military-medical in- their deputies is being constantly stitutions, in particular: medical renewed. histories, acts, protocols of military Except the hard copies of the medical commissions; document documents, the Archives stores copies of military-educational Order of the Minister of movies (1959–1997) and photo al- Defence of bums, refl ecting history of military Ukraine “On educational establishments gradu- the organization ates, pictures of commanders and of direct control of the junior enlisted (pictures of XIX – army which is XX centuries). stationed on Since 1998, according to the plan, the territory of the Archives is collecting a full set Ukraine”. 1991 of documents from directorates of the MOD of Ukraine, GS of the AF of Ukraine and also documents of military units and installations that are being disbanded. To provide reference informa- tion, aiming to protect the rights and to satisfy social needs of the 200 citizens, 85% of documents stored are being used. Branch State Archives

The Branch State Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e Branch State Archives of Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) was established according to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Min- isters of Ukraine No 206 of April, 1, 1994 to collect, identify, store and ensure practical use of records of signifi cant operative, scien- tifi c, historical and cultural value. In accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine No 649 of June, 6, 2011 the Branch State Archives was defi ned as the SSU institution. Th e SSU Archives system com- prises the SSU Branch State Ar- chives itself and the Archives of Address: 7, Zolotovoritska Str., the SSU regional offi ces. Over Kyiv, 01034 For correspondence: 1.5 million fi les, predominantly being 16, Malopidvalna Str., part of the National Archival Fund of Kyiv, 01034 Ukraine, are preserved there. E–mail: [email protected] Description of Archival Transport: metro (to station Holdings “Zoloti Vorota” ) Th ere are 87 funds in the SSU Reading М–F 9.30 am – 5 pm Branch State Archives that com- room hours prise nearly 225 thousand items. of operation: Th e most ancient ones are dated Director: Svitlana Liaskovska back to 1918, the year of the All- Ukrainian Extraordinary Com- mission establishment. How- ever, there are several documents related to pre-revolutionary epoch – photographs, letters, note- books etc. Documents of signifi cant value: – legal acts and administrative 201201 documents issued by the USSR Archives of Ukraine

civil and political, cultural, reli- gious, etc. processes in the society; – data concerning foreign intel- ligence activity on the territory of Ukraine; – collections of documents of World War II era, in particular those refl ecting counter-intelligence, in- telligence and subversive activities of the Soviet state security agencies, partisan units, underground groups as well as German occupation regime on the territory of Ukraine, organiza- Rare archival and the Ukrainian SSR central and tional structure and activity of Ger- holdings republican state security agencies man special agencies and those of its as well as by the Security Service of allies; Ukraine; – personal fi les of the Soviet state – documents prepared by security agencies and the SSU former VUChK-GPU-NKVD-MGB-KGB employees; command authorities (statements – archival documents created in the to authorities, reviews, special com- course of operative activity of the SSU munications); divisions, bodies and establishments. – criminal cases against totalitari- Archives activities anism victims – prominent people Th e documents created during the that propagated the development activities of the SSU Central Depart- of Ukrainian statehood, science, ment units, regional bodies, institu- education, culture, art and church tions and military units are system- representatives of soviet party and atically added to the Branch State state leadership, as well as persons Archives holdings. who committed state crimes and in Th e Archives is situated in a accordance with the acting law of specially designed building with Ukraine are not liable Rare archival to rehabilitation; holdings – documents relat- ing to the activity of certain Ukrainian political parties and movements of the revolutionary and national liberation struggle age; 202 – documents on social and economic, Branch State Archives high-tech equipment for proper storage of archival materials. Th e documents are stored in reposi- tories equipped with metal fi ling cabinets. Copies of the most valuable docu- ments are made and the list of the documents to which users can have access is drawn up. Th e documents are restored and their electronic copies are made. In 2011 the review of the USSR archival documents security clas- sisted in making 100 publications. Building of the sifi cations was completed. In cooperation with the National Branch State Archives of the Archival documents are the im- Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Security Service portant source for the exploration 75 collections of documents and of Ukraine of many historical issues of the XX scientifi c researches were pub- century. Th at is why archival mate- lished. Recently the following pub- rials are used not only during the lications were made – collections of SSU activities including training of documents “Large-Scale Terror in scientifi c, teaching and operative Ukraine. 1937–1938 “Anti-Kulak staff , development of scientifi c re- Campaign”, “Large-Scale Terror in search within the scope of the SSU Ukraine. 1937–1938 Polish Opera- tasks, but also for fulfi lment of the tion” – the 8th volume of “Poland requests of the state authorities, sci- and Ukraine in the 30s – 40s of the entifi c institutions, educational es- XX century”. Unknown Documents tablishments, mass media, citizens from the Special Services Archives, of Ukraine and foreign states in “Carpatho-Ukraine: Chronology order to implement long-term state of the Events, Documents and programs and scientifi c publishing Facts, Personalities”, “Carpathian projects. Sich: Military Units of Carpatho- Th e range of declassifi ed docu- Ukraine”, publication “Informa- mentaries about repressed partici- tion about 1932–1933 Famine in pants of the liberation movement Ukraine in the SSU Branch State and Ukrainian intellectuals was Archives Holdings: Annotated Di- shot on the basis of the Branch State gest”, 14th and 15th volumes of the Archives materials. During the last new series “Th e Ukrainian Rebel- fi ve years the Branch State Archives lion Army Chronicle”, biographical holdings have been used to arrange handbook “Ukrainian Autocepha- huge exhibitions. lous Orthodox Church Personali- Within the framework of the “Re- ties that were Subject to Repression. habilitated by History” Program the 1921–1939”, annotated reference 203 Branch State Archives personnel as- “National Liberation Insurgent Archives of Ukraine

In the reading- quences” hall of the Branch State (“Truth Archives of the Down the Security Servise Years” s e- of Ukraine ries), mod- ern reprint of “Record Book of People, who had been on the Special Prosecu- tor Gen- Movement in Ukraine at the End eral’s Offi ce Register, in Particular, of 1920–1921”. Th e “Petliura’s Ata- of Former White Offi cers” (volume mans” case, monograph “Ukrai- 1), collection of documents “Patri- nian Soviet Socialist Republic State arch Joseph the Blind in the Soviet Political Directorate Units Activity State Security Agencies Documents (1927–1929) According to Depart- Dated 1939–1987”, etc. mental Statistics Documents and Wide variety of research topics is Materials” and “1937–1938 Politi- broadly introduced on the pages of cal Persecution in Donetsk Region: “From Archives of the Ukrainian Reasons, Course of Events, Conse- – Prosecutor General’s Of- fi ce – NKVD – KGB” that is the Photo of a only scientifi c documentary journal declassified document in the post-Soviet region. Cofound- ers of this edition are the Institute of Ukrainian History under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the State Archival Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Associa- tion of Country Studies and the Se- curity Service of Ukraine. 25 issues of the journal were published dur- ing its lifetime. Special issues of the journal contain materials of large- scale criminal cases, in particular, the cases of “All-Union Military Of- fi cers Organization” (the “Spring” case, 1930–1931), “Jewish Antifas- 204 cist Committee” (1948–1949) etc. Th e separate special issue was de- Branch State Archives voted to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic state secu- rity agencies activities during World War II (1941–1945). Publication of the unique documents concerning the soviet state security agencies employees’ participation in mitigation of consequences of the disaster at Chornobyl Nuclear Power-Station has drawn a wide international response. Th e SSU Branch State Ar- chives participates in implementa- and Ukraine in the 30s – 40s of the Photo from tion of agreements on cooperation XX century. Unknown Documents the exhibition made between the SSU and “Saxon from the Security Service Ar- Memorials in Memory of Political chives”. Eight volumes have been Terror Victims” Public Associa- already published and received tion (Germany), Yad Vashem Ca- appreciation from presidents and tastrophe Victims and Heroism public of both countries. Memorial Complex (Israel), the In possession of the Branch American Holocaust Memorial State Archives system there are (USA), German Red Cross Track- reading halls, which are visited by ing Service. A very important and domestic and foreign scientists, serious task is the preparation to- country studies specialists, appli- gether with the Central Archives cants and post-graduate students, and the Ministry of the Interior teachers, students and pupils. and the Administration of the Re- In addition to the reading halls public of Poland of the multivol- the SSU administrative facili- ume documentary edition “Poland ties contain information refer- ence rooms, the Filing cabinets documentary da- of the Archives tabase of which consists of elec- tronic copies of the Branch State Archives docu- ments. Such halls can be found not only in Kyiv, but in all regions of 205 Ukraine. Archives of Ukraine

The Branch State Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Of Ukraine

Historical Background The Archives of the Depart- ment of the Workers’ and Peas- ants’ Militia of the People’s Com- missariat of Internal Affairs (NKVS) of the Ukrainian SSR (1934–1935). The Archives of the First Spe- cial Division of the NKVS, Min- istry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ukraine (1935–1971). The Archives of the Republi- can Informational Centre at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1974–1986). Group of the special funds of the General Informational Address: 10, Bohomolets Str. Bureau at the Ministry of In- Kyiv, 01024 Tel.: +380 (44) 256-11-23, ternal Affairs of the UkSSR 256-76-22 (1986–1992). E-mail: [email protected] Group of the special funds of Transport: metro (to station the Informational Bureau at the “Khreschatyk”), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bus No 24, 62 the UkSSR (1986–1994). (to stop “Budynok Ofi tseriv”) The Branch State Archives Reading М–Th 9 am – 6 pm of the Ministry of Internal Af- room hours fairs of Ukraine (from 1995 of operation: to the present). Director: Nataliya Tatus Archival documents of the Branch State Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine are kept in the archives of the central office of the Minis- try of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, in 26 branch offices of the main 206 departments, in regional depart- ments of the Ministry of Inter- Branch State Archives nal Affairs of Ukraine and in the Declassified Central Archives of the Inner case from the Troops. There are persistence funds of the Branch State storage documents in the educa- Archives of tional establishments and in the the Ministry of scientific and research establish- Internal Affairs ments of the system of the Minis- of Ukraine. 1952–1982 try of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Total Volume of Funds In general 1 638 funds are main- tained, 82 of them in the main departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 1 440 in the Region Departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and 116 funds in the Central Archives of the Main De- partment of Inner Troops. 2 449 307 units are preserved in an Soviet Socialist Republic. The the Archives, 47 523 of them are Ministry of Internal Affairs of the in the Main Department of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Repub- Ministry of Internal Affairs of lic sent these cases to the archives Ukraine, 2 362 160 of them are in of the Region Departments of the the departments of the Ministry MIA, according to where the per- of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in sons were convicted. regions, 39 624 of them are in the Central Archives of the Main De- Declassified case from the partment of the Inner Troops for funds of the the period 1918–2012. Branch State Description of Archival Archives of Holdings the Ministry of Internal Affairs In 1938, in accordance with a of Ukraine. decision of the NKVS, the Pros- 1952 ecutor’s Office, the People’s Com- missariat of Justice of the UkSSR, the case documents for persons convicted of counterrevolution- ary crimes were transferred from the courts to the authorities of the state security of the NKVS. In 1954–1956, a portion of these cas- es were passed on to the Ministry 207 of Internal Affairs of the Ukraini- Archives of Ukraine

the ministries of internal aff airs of the republics and departments of the MIA. But aft er two years, this process of transferring was dis- continued, and part of the archival case fi les remained in the archives of the ministries of internal af- fairs of the former republics of the USSR, in the region departments of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In accordance with the Decree of the Main Ar- chival Department at the Coun- Archival storage cil of Ministers of the UkSSR and of the Branch In 1943, due to the separation of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs of State Archives the operative-chekist units from the UkSSR of 1964, archival case of the Ministry the NKVS and their transfer to the fi les that were created by the De- of Internal Affairs of newly-created NKDB (the People’s partment of Prisoners of War and Ukraine Committee of State Security), ar- Internees, cards of foreign pris- chival documents were redistrib- oners of the War who stayed in uted according to the functions camps-working battalions in the of each group. territories of Ukraine, were trans- In 1949, in accordance with the ferred to the “Special Archives” of Decree of the Council of Ministers the Main Archival Administra- of the UkSSR, the Border Troops tion of the Counsel of Ministers and Police became the responsi- of the UkSSR. bility of the MIA, along with their In 1968, the criminal cases of archives. persons convicted for war crimes In 1949, the documents of the by military tribunals of units of fund of “Administration of Pris- the Soviet Army within the terri- oners of War and Internees”, tory of Ukraine during 1941–1945 which concerned the activities of were selected and transferred to political units of the archives of the Ministry of De- camps in the territory of Ukraine, fence of the UkSSR. In November, were passed to the “Special In- 1991 in accordance with a cipher- formation Bureau” in the City telegram from the Ministry of of Krasnogorsk. Internal Aff airs of the UkSSR to In 1954, with the intent of sim- the Administration of the Inner plifying the process of discharg- Troops and Convoy Security in ing special exiles, the archival case Ukraine and Moldova, archives 208 fi les on persons sent into exile to documenting the activities of special settlements were passed to these troops from 1943 to 1980 Branch State Archives were transferred Archival storage of the Branch to Moscow. State Archives Th e Branch of the Ministry State Archives of of Internal the Ministry of Affairs of Ukraine Internal Aff airs of Ukraine keeps the normative documents of the NKVS, the Ministry of In- ternal Aff airs of the UkSSR and NKVS, the Min- istry of Internal Aff airs of the Ukrainian Soviet So- bour workers dating back to 1942, cialist Republic since 1936, high personal fi les of special exiles, governmental bodies and admin- criminal cases of extrajudicial and istration of the Ukrainian Soviet judicial bodies for 1920–1953, and Socialist Republic on the issues of department fi les dating back to activities of the bodies of internal 1950 are kept in the archival sub- aff airs since 1938, fi les of the de- divisions of the Main Department partments of the Ministry since of the Ministry of Internal Aff airs 1944, statistical reports from 1942 of Ukraine and in the regional onward with information about departments of the Ministry of crimes and the persons who com- Internal Aff airs of Ukraine. Docu- mitted them, criminal cases on ments of military units, convoy persons convicted by extrajudicial troops and national guards dating and judicial bodies during 1919– back to 1989 are kept in the Cen- 1945, as well as documents about tral Archives of the Inner Troops. the participation of employees of In 1990 in accordance with the the Central Offi ce of the Ministry Law of Ukraine “On State Se- in maintaining public order dur- crets”, work on declassifying ar- ing criminal cases on persons sus- chival documents of the Ministry pected of committing crimes from of Internal Aff airs of Ukraine was 1982–1998 as well as personnel started for the fi rst time. Since documents of the Ministry of In- then, the departmental fi les of ternal Aff airs of Ukraine dating the Ministry have been reviewed back to 1944. and partly declassifi ed. Declassi- Decrees of the regional depart- fi cation of the normative acts of ments of the Ministry of Internal NKVS and the Ministry of Inter- Aff airs of Ukraine dating back to nal Aff airs of the UkSSR is now 209 1944, personal fi les of forced la- being completed. Archives of Ukraine

The Branch State Archives of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e Branch State Archives of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine (further referred to as the Archives) was founded under the Order “On the National Archival Fund and Ar- chival Institutions” and the Resolu- tion of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine from September, 6, 2000, No 1393 “On Founding of the Branch State Archives of the State Guard of Ukraine” (with changes). Th e Archives is a state archival institution, a constituent part of the apparatus of the State Guard of Ukraine on legal bases of a sector within the department of organiza- tional, analytical, documentary and Address: 81, Mel’nykov Str., legal support. Kyiv, 04050 Tel.: +380 (044) 481-05-58 Th e Archives shall be liquidated by Tel./fax: +380 (044) 481-05-46 the decision of the Cabinet of Minis- E-mail: [email protected] ters of Ukraine. Transport: metro (to station Legal Basis “Luk’yanivs’ka”), Th e Archives is guided by: trolleybus No 16, 19 the Constitution and the laws of (to stop “Pugachov Str.”) Ukraine; Reading М–Th 9 am – 6 pm the decrees of the President of room F 9am – 5.45pm Ukraine and the Cabinet of Minis- hours of operation: ters of Ukraine; the regulations of the Ministry of Director: Viktoria Rudenko Justice of Ukraine; other regulations; the orders of the State Guard of Ukraine; the Regulation on the Branch State Archives of the State Guard 210210 of Ukraine, which was approved by the Order of the Ministry of Justice Branch State Archives of Ukraine from April, 20, 2012, Building No 626/5; of state the Order of the State Department Penitentiary of Ukraine for Execution of Pun- Service of Ukraine ishments from February, 4, 2004, No 21 “On Approving the List of Doc- uments Generated During the Activi- ties of Agencies and Criminal-Exec- utive System, with Terms of Storage”; the Order of the State Department of Ukraine for Execution of Punish- other special activities of bodies and ments from December, 20, 2006, No establishments of the Criminal-Ex- 249 “Th e Instructions for the Organi- ecutive Service. zation of the Archival Departments Th e Archives also secures storing of the State Criminal-Executive Ser- of personnel fi les of former employ- vice of Ukraine”; ees from bodies and establishments the Order of the State Guard of of the Criminal-Executive Service. Ukraine from February, 10, 2012, Scientifi c-reference apparatus de- No 82 “On Approval of the Instruc- scription: tion on Records Keeping in the State card indexes, automated database Guard of Ukraine”. only for offi cial use; Description of Archival Holdings index; Th e Archives shall accept, stock- alphabetic indexes to the archival take and store documents, generated fi les of personnel; during the activity of the State Guard the reference-information fund; of Ukraine, its territorial governing archival, legal, historical literature bodies, departments of the criminal- and periodicals stores; executive inspection, establishments the Expert and Verifi cation Com- of punishments execution, remand mission (EVC). prisons, paramilitary formations, Th e EVC works in accordance with educational establishments, health the Regulations on its foundation care establishments, enterprises and approved by the Order of the State establishments of punishments ex- Department of Ukraine from June, ecution, other enterprises, establish- 10, 2008, No 148 and agreed with the ments and organizations created to State Archival Service of Ukraine. fulfi l the tasks of the State Criminal- Priority tasks of the EVC are view- Executive Service of Ukraine and to ing of the problems concerning de- provide appropriate conditions for termination of the methodical and their exploitation. organization bases for the documents Th e Archives provides constant appraisal, defi ning the continuum of storing of documents of the National documents of the National Archival Archival Fund of Ukraine that are Fund and sources of their generating, 211211 generated during operational and timing of documents storing. Archives of Ukraine

The Branch State Archives of the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine

Historical Background According to the Decree of the President of Ukraine No 40 of January, 15, 1992 the De- partment of the State Guard of Ukraine was established as the law enforcement body with spe- cial status. The Department per- forms its duties in the security sphere and guarantees state of- ficials security under the Act of Ukraine “On the State Guard of State Power Bodies of Ukraine and State Officials”. In accor- dance with the Act of Ukraine “On the National Archival Fund and Archival Institutions”, the Instruction of the State Commit- Address: 8, Bogomolets Str., tee of Ukraine on State Secrets Kyiv, 01024 Tel.: +380 (44)256-11-23, and Technical Protection of In- 254-76-22 formation and the Main Archival Administration of the Cabinet of Transport: minibus No 62, 407, 466, 553 Ministers of Ukraine No 26–8 (to stop “Budynok ofi tseriv”) of March, 3, 1997 “On selection Reading М–F 9 am – 6 pm order and disposal of classified room hours documents in archives” the Ar- of operation: chives of the Department of the Director: Larysa Lukyanenko State Guard of Ukraine was es- tablished in 1998. The Archives was registered in the Central State Archives of Supreme Bod- ies of Power and Government of Ukraine, gaining the departmen- tal status. On the basis of already exist- ing section the Branch State Ar- 212212 chives of the Department was founded. Its purpose is to dis- Branch State Archives pose documents, being the prod- One of the archives of the uct of the Department activity, Branch State and require special conditions Archives of the (documents contain confidential Department of information – files, video, audio, the State Guard of Ukraine digital data). “Th e Regulation on the Branch State Archives of the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine” has been made in compliance with the Act of the Cabinet of Minis- ters of Ukraine No 1742 of No- vember, 16, 2002 and entered into force under the Joint Order of the Department and the State Com- mittee of Archives of Ukraine No 69/96 from September, 10, 2004. Total Volume of Funds The Archives contains 6 funds, The data concerning security 2 707 items (normative legal, fi- organization (provision) of the nancial documents, personal state officials and bodies of pow- records of the Department etc.) er of Ukraine are also disposed in from 1992–2007. the Archives.

Building of the Branch State Archives of the Department of the State Guard of Ukraine

213213 Archives of Ukraine

The Branch State Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Historical Background The Political Division of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR (1944–1951). The Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrai- nian SSR (1951–1993). The Department for History and Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (1993–2004). The Branch State Archives of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (since March, 31, 2004). Total Volume of Funds 66 funds, 516 thousand units (covering 1944–2010). Address: 1, Mykhailivska Square, Description of Archival Kyiv, 01018 Tel.: +380 (44) 238-15-62 Holdings +380 (44) 238-16-49 The documents reflecting the Fax: +380 (44) 238-16-28 history of the Ukrainian for- E-mail: [email protected] eign policy activities are pre- Transport: metro (to station served in the Archives of the “Poshtova ploshcha”), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of cable railroad Ukraine. They were produced Reading М–Th 10 am – 5 pm in the process of functioning room hours of the Ministry, diplomatic and of operation: consular missions. The Archives Director: Iryna Ovcharenko comprises the documents of the Main Fund, the Fund of personal files of the Ministry’s staff, trea- ties and agreements of Ukraine with foreign states, international treaties registered with the UN, the stock of documentary pho- 214214 tos, international treaties, con- ventions, agreements and other Branch State Archives acts concerning Ukraine, the documents of the UN General Assembly, its bodies and special- ized agencies as well as docu- ments of liquidated international organizations etc. – The fund of documents on the main activities (1944–2006) contains the Law of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of March, 4, 1944 “On the Establish- ment of the Union and Republi- can Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR” (a revised copy) and the Decree of eral Agreement on privileges Museum the Presidium of the Supreme and immunities of the Council of History of Diplomatic Council of the Ukrainian SSR of of Europe (1949). Service February, 5, 1945 “On the Estab- – The fund of personal files of of Ukraine lishment of the People’s Commis- the Ministry’s staff (since 1944). sariat of Foreign Affairs of the – The fund of the UN General Ukrainian SSR”. Assembly documents (1944– – The fund of treaties and 2010). It contains documents of agreements of Ukraine with for- the Dumbarton Oaks Confer- eign states includes the Gen- ence and proposals regarding the

Museum of History of Diplomatic Service of Ukraine

215215 Archives of Ukraine

position and other documents. Reading-room of the library Th ose dossiers were branded “UN of the Branch Security Council Dossiers”: State Archives – Th e UN Security Council docu- of the Ministry ments Fund (1947–2001). for Foreign Affairs of – Th e UN Security Council Dos- Ukraine sier Fund (1992–1997). – Th e UN Educational, Scien- tifi c and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) documents Fund (1946–1987). – Th e fund “UNESCO Dossier” (1952–1975). – Th e fund of documents of the International Labour Organization (1919–1962). Th e fi rst documents are the protocols of the fi rst Session of the General Conference of the structure of the international or- International Labour Organization ganization for the period of 1944. and its decisions (since October, – Th e “Dossier of the UN Gen- 29, 1919). eral Assembly” (1945–2001) Stock. – Th e fund of documents of the It includes documents which Universal Postal Union (1952– Ukraine, represented by the Minis- 1975). Th e archives preserves a cer- try for Foreign Aff airs of Ukraine, tifi ed authentic copy of the Treaty receives as a compulsory set of of Bern on the creation of the orga- documents of this organization. nization on October, 9, 1874. In the early years of the UN ac- – Th e fund of the documents of tivities they were one of the main the World Intellectual property Or- sources for studying the essential ganization (1952–1975). part of the issues considered at the – Th e fund of the documents of sessions as well as for the prepa- the World Meteorological Organi- ration of Ukrainian delegations zation (1947–1975). Th e archives for next sessions. preserves an authentic certifi ed With the enlargement of the copy of the Convention on the cre- range of issues considered at the ation of the Organization on Octo- sessions there emerged a need for ber, 11, 1947. special dossiers which would con- – Th e fund of the documents of tain not only the Assembly’s offi cial the International Telecommunica- documents on specifi c issues, but tion Union (1952–1975). also reference materials on the his- – The fund of the documents 216216 tory of the issue and the problem in of the UN International Court of general, specifying other countries` Justice (1946–1974). Branch State Archives

– The fund of the documents State in documents and memo- of International conferences ries of the contemporaries”, “The and meetings on the protec- history of the Ukrainian diplo- tion of war victims, the Interna- macy: first steps on the interna- tional Red Cross activities issues tional arena (1917–1924)”. (1949–1974), the first of them The Archives also contains are the documents of the Diplo- the following publications: se- matic Conference in Geneva in ries of collections “Ukraine on 1949. the international arena”, the – The fund of the documents collection of documents “The on the issues of the UN Relief delegates of Ukraine to the ses- and Rehabilitation Administra- sions and conferences of in- tion (UNRRA) and its mission in ternational organizations and Ukraine. their bodies”, information and – The fund of the documents of reference data, research and the Framework Convention on development publications, de- Climate Change (1995–1998). scriptions, card indices, guides, The employees of the Archives funds reviews and other types of the Ministry for Foreign Af- of reference data that reveal the fairs of Ukraine participated in content and structure of the Ar- the publication of such collected chives funds. Secret documents archival documents as: “The di- of the period of 1944–1990 have plomacy of the People’s Republic been declassified and transferred of Ukraine and of the Ukrainian to the General Fund.

Building of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. The Branch State Archives is located there

217217 Archives of Ukraine

The Cartographic and Geodetic State Fund of Ukraine

Historical Background State owned geodesy and car- tography fund of Ukraine was organized in 1996 with the pur- pose of centralizing the data col- lection, reporting, data analysis, and storage of topographic, geo- desic and cartographic docu- ments of the country. The in- stitution is providing the above information to national econ- omy, country’s population, and scientific, educational and de- fensive institutions of Ukraine. Total Volume of Funds 2 funds, 504 661 units of stor- Address: 3, Novopecherska Wool, age for the period from 1932 till Kyiv, 01042 (building 2) Тel: +380(44) 521-19-57, 2010, 27 964 units of storage of 521-18-49; 521-14-73. maps and cartographic publica- Fax: +380(44)521-14-73 tions; 254 753 complete sets of E-mail: [email protected]. [email protected] published originals from cre- ation of cards (221 944 units of Transport: metro (to station “Palats Ukraina”)

Reading М–Th 8.30 am – 5.15 pm room hours of operation:

Director: Tatiana Kravchenko

Building of the 218218 Ukrkartgeofund Branch State Archives

In the archival repository

storage); 27 760 books of engi- ferent levels of privacy, as well neering specifi cations concerning as unclassifi ed maps of Ukraine, projects and reports regarding ex- the Russian Federation; thematic ecuted topographic and geodesic maps and atlases, geodesic docu- projects for the period from 1932 ments and aerial photography. till 2010. Th e UKRKARTGEOFUND analy- Description of Archival ses the state geodesic network of Holdings Ukraine and performs continuous Archival repository: topograph- cartographic monitoring of the ter- ic, general aerial-topographic and ritory of Ukraine. In order to have aerial maps, aerial maps of cities, an updated and precise display of plans of cities of diff erent scales, geographical objects and admin- a map coordinated system of dif- istrative-territorial structures of Ukraine, the Work with UKRKART- documents GEOFUND is undertaking two ongoing projects called “Duty map of Ukraine” and “Guide of the administrative and territo- rial structure of 219219 Ukraine”. Archives of Ukraine The Branch State Archives of Hydrometeorologi- cal Service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Ukraine

Historical Background Pursuant to the Order of the Main Administration of Hydrometeoro- logical Service at Council of Min- isters of the USSR from May, 16, 1958 the Ukrainian Republican Ad- ministration of Hydrometeorology (from 1991 the State Hydrometeo- rology Committee of Ukraine (Der- zhkomgidromet) had organized the department of hydrometeorological fund (Gidrometfond) in Kyiv Hy- drometeorological Observatory of Ukrainian UGMS. In accordance to the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Address: 39, Nauky Avenue, from 31.07.1995 No 570 on the bas- Building 2, Kyiv, 03028 es of the Hydrometeorology Fund of Тel: +380(44) 525-69-69, Ukraine the Branch State Archives 525-69-62 of the State Hydrometeorology Fax: +380(44) 525-69-69 E-mail: [email protected] Committee of Ukraine was created. Connecting with the Decree of Transport: metro (to station “Lybids’ka”), President of Ukraine from Decem- trolleybus No 1 or bus No 20 (to stop “Hydrometeorological”) ber, 15, 1999 the Hydrometeorology Committee of Ukraine entered to Reading M, Tu, Th 10am – 5pm the Ministry of Ecology and Natural room hours of operation: Resources of Ukraine. By the Resolution of the Cabinet of Director: Mykhailo Dovgich Ministers of Ukraine from Decem- ber, 27, 2001 No 1750 the Hydro- meteorology Committee of Ukraine was reorganized in the State Hydro- meteorological Service. By the De- cree of President of Ukraine from September, 15, 2003 No 1039/2003 it was reorganized in the Ministry 220 of Natural Environment Protection of Ukraine. In 2005 the State Hy- Branch State Archives

Journals and annuals of weather observations. End of the XIX – beginning of the XX century

drometeorological Service entered indexes, namely: documents on the in the complement of the Ministry questions of hydrology, meteorology, of Ukraine on Emergency and Pro- agricultural meteorology, aerology, tection of Population from Conse- weather forecasting, and hydrobiol- quences of Chornobyl Catastrophe ogy, information about radiation (from 2010 – the Ministry of Emer- control and materials of observation gencies of Ukraine). on the environment. Th e Establish- Total Volume of Funds ment contains the documents of Th e common volume of funds in- meteorological observations from cludes 7 funds, 161 035 units of stor- 1808, diaries of visual observations age collected during 1808–2010: from the beginning of the XIX cen- the Meteorological fund contains turies, unique hydrological annuals 48 719 units (1808–2012); of occident: Austria, Hungary, and the Hydrological fund contains Poland from the middle of the XIX 64 271 units (1860–2012); century, documents of period World the Agricultural meteorology fund War I and World War II and the Civil contains 34 234 units (1931–2012); War, period of the Nazi occupation the Weather fund contains of Ukraine. 2 623 units (1940–2010); Th e Archives keeps materials about the Aerological fund contains the state of radioactivity contamina- 2 655 units (1924, 1949–2012); tion of the atmosphere and atmo- the Fund of results of investiga- spheric precipitates, superfi cial wa- tion for the contamination level of ters and soils of Ukraine. environment contains 1 786 units Th e Meteorological fund contains (1967–2012); the documents of observations on Materials are generalized 3 747 territory of Ukraine on the tempera- un. st. for 1881–2012. ture of air, soil, sun radiation, sun ra- Description of Archival Holdings diance, direction and speed of wind, Th e Archives is the specialized sub- by atmospheric pressure, humidity of section of the State Hydrometeoro- air, precipitations, snow cover, gener- logical Service, where materials are al maintenance of ozone and on the collected about the past and mod- atmospheric phenomena. ern state of environment of Ukraine Th e Hydrological fund concen- 221221 on his quantitative and high-quality trates the documents of looking aft er Archives of Ukraine

the levels of water, charges of water, points of cities of Ukraine, annual temperature of water, snow cover, information about the state of con- charges of hangings up and mobile tamination of air of Kyiv and Kyiv re- alluviums, measuring of depths on gion, chemical composition of atmo- the rivers, lakes, reservoirs and seas spheric precipitates, results of control of Ukraine. snow cover contamination, surface Th e Agricultural Meteorology fund waters of dry land contamination, concentrates information of obser- salt water and sea surface, state of vations in vegetation and winter pe- biota (vegetation, animal organisms), riods of year, looking aft er humidity card of primary treatment of samples of soil, by agro hydrological proper- of phitozoobenthose, perifi tons and ties of soil, information of supplies of zoobenthos, magazines of radiation, moisture in soil, by evaporation from chemical supervisions, radioactive soil, frozen solid and thawing of soil, falls, radioactivity of air, magazines of temperature of soil. results of analyses of samples of aero- Th e Weather fund contains the sols and falls, radionuclide composi- ground maps of weather, ring and tion of air aerosols of atmospheric microring maps, maps of barometric falls, and radioactive contamination, topography, extreme temperatures reviews of works, from the study of and precipitations for territories of radioactive contamination of terri- Ukraine, kinematic maps of weather tory of Ukraine. periods, map of division of mean Hydrographical documents con- values of temperature of air for a tain topographical, hydrographical ten-day period and month and of maps, plans-charts of territory of division of anomalies of temperature, water objects, where the hydrome- precipitations and other elements of teorological stations and posts are stormy notifi cations, magazines of located on, materials of levelling, rout the stormy warnings of the elemental surveys, temperature of snow cover, hydrometeorological phenomena. stratography and physical-mechani- Th e Aerological fund – data of cal properties of snow, height of snow wind temperature sounding, middle cover and snow state at territories of wind layer, monthly results of ra- its fall, descriptions of avalanches. diosounding observations, results of Th e Fund of generalized literature sounding on the microstructure of consists of annuals, monthlies, ref- clouds, on the height of lower limit of erence books, atlases, albums, bul- clouds, temperature, humidity, pres- letins, looked over, what contained sure, direction and speed of wind on information from all of types of ob- diff erent heights. servations on the state of the natural Th e Fund of investigations of the environment, catalogues of the dan- state environment contaminations gerous phenomena of weather. contains information of measuring Th e funds of the Archives do not 222 contamination of air in the districts contain secret information and of industrial enterprises and separate accessible for the use. Branch State Archives

The State Geological Information Fund of Ukraine (Geoinform of Ukraine)

Historical Background Th e State Geologic Information Fund of Ukraine was founded in 1919 under the Ukrainian Geolog- ical Committee (headed by famous Ukrainian geologist, Professor V. Luchitskyi) as the specialized library, where reports and other documents on geological research- es being conducted on the terri- tory of Ukraine since 1895 have been accumulated. Th e library was disposed in one of the laboratory room of Kyiv University, which was occupied by the Committee. In 1929 the Ukrainian Geological Address: 116, Ezhena Potie Str., Committee was reorganized into Kyiv, 03057. Tel.: +380(44) 456-60-61 the Ukrainian Geological Admin- E-mail: [email protected] istration and the library – into the Geological Fund which since 1937 Transport: metro (to station “Shulyavska”), trolleybus No 5,7 became the Ukrainian Territorial (to stop “Garmatna Str.”) Department of the National Geo- logical Fund (NGF). Reading M–F 9am–5pm room hours Since January, 1, 1940 11 196 of operation: geological documents were saved in the Funds. In 1941 basic reports Director: Serhiy Prymushko Building of the State Scientific and Production Enterprise of the State Geological Information Fund of Ukraine

223 Archives of Ukraine

Ñatalogue In the four-level administra- of geological tion building (16, Ezhena Potie materials Str., Kyiv) constructed in 1963 by the Central Authority of Ge- ology of the Ukrainian SSR was constructed the necessary active area for the geological funds of Ukraine. In 1992 the Ukrainian Terri- torial Geological Fund was re- formed into the State Geological Enterprise “The State Geologic Information Fund” (SGE “Geo- inform of Ukraine”). In 2001 the SGE “Geoinform” was regenerat- ed to the State Scientific and Pro- and cartographic materials were duction Enterprise “Geoinform transported to Donbas, and later – of Ukraine” the establishment of to Aktyubinsk (Kazakhstan). In the State Committee of Natural 1944 the Funds were re-evacuated Resources of Ukraine which has to Kyiv, but during Word War II modern financial and technical only the part of funds remained bases that allows effective pro- in Kyiv. On January, 1, 1946 the cessing and keeping geological Funds contained 5 039 geological information. documents. The SGE “Geoinform of In 1952 the Ukrainian Territorial Ukraine” is unique, modern, in- Department of the NGF was reor- formative, which uses front-rank ganized into the Ukrainian Terri- computer technologies to receipt torial Geological Fund (UTGF) and distribute various geological starting from 1958 in connection information due to which spe- with growth of volumes of geologi- cialists execute important state cal works and re- Scanning of graphic port materials, the geological UTGF got the status materials of independent self- supporting unit in the Central Author- ity of Geology of the Ukrainian SSR, and then became the Ministry of Geology 224224 and Use of Depths of the Ukrainian SSR. Branch State Archives

Structure of electronic filling for computer archives of the fund of geological materials

tasks such as: accumulation, stor- Total Volume of Funds age and grant of the fund geo- 1 fund, 159 074 units for 1900– logical materials to realize rights 2012. and duties of legal and natural Description of Archival persons in relation with obtain- Holding ing the geological information; Non-publish geological reports provide state registration of geol- concentrated in the Archives are ogy-prospecting works; conduct made on the bases of study and use the State Cadastre of mineral of depths of Ukraine: on results of deposits and occurrences, the the geological, geophysical, engineer- State Water Cadastre, the State geological and other types of geologi- Balance of Mineral Reserves; the cal works during the lead through of account of geological, geophysi- outputs, searches and prospecting of cal, hydro-geological, engineer- hard minerals, oil and gas, and also geological, ecology-geological as the scientifi c-exploration, themat- studying the territory of Ukraine; ic, experimentally-methodical and prepare materials for granting experimentally-technological works special permissions on a geologi- outcomes, including creation of the cal study and use of depths; cre- informative systems and soft ware 225 ate geological data bases etc. processing of geological data. Archives of Ukraine The Branch State Archives of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine

Historical Background Th e Branch State Archives of the State Service of Special Communica- tions and Information Protection of Ukraine was created in accordance with the Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No 1254-r, is- sued on October, 21, 2009 “On Cre- ation of the Branch State Archives of the State Service of Special Commu- nications and Information Protection of Ukraine”. As a legal entity, the Branch State Archives of the State Service of Spe- cial Communications and Informa- tion Protection of Ukraine began its Address: 3/6, Maxim Zalizniak Str., work on the bases of the joint order of Kyiv, 03142 Tel./fax: + 380 (44) 451-95-15 the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and E-mail: [email protected] the Administration of the State Ser- vice of Special Communications and Transport: metro (to station “Akademmistechko”), Information Protection of Ukraine route taxi No 202, 510 issued on July, 7, 2011 No 1811/5/159 (to stop “Maxim Zalizniak Str.) and the Order of the Administration Reading M–F 9am–5pm of the State Service of Special Com- room hours munications and Information Pro- of operation: tection of Ukraine, issued on July, 20, Director: Муkola Shlyama 2011 No 171. Th e Branch State Archives of the State Service of Special Communica- tions and Information Protection of Ukraine accepts state registers and stores the documents of the National Archival Fund that were created in the process of activity of the struc- tural divisions of the Administration, regional authorities, local authorities, 226 institutions and organizations of the State Service of Special Communica- Branch State Archives

functioning of Work with documents the Government communications and the National System of Confi - dential Commu- nication, usage of radiofrequency re- source, protection of objects, build- ings, systems, net- works, complexes, the Government tions and Information Protection of and special communications and of Ukraine, creates the conditions for the personnel. usage of these documents and pro- Th e Branch State Archives of the vides organizational and methodolog- State Service of Special Communica- ical management on archival aff airs of tions and Information Protection of the State Service of Special Commu- Ukraine has in its archives documents nications and Information Protection of disbanded structural divisions of of Ukraine. the State Service of Special Communi- Total Volume of Funds cations and Information Protection of 9 funds, 1 884 storage units, starting Ukraine and the documents on per- from 1927 up to 2012; up to the third sonnel from the disbanded Ministry part of all the documents have vulture of Communications of Ukraine. Th e access restrictions. Archives saves the part of documents Description of Archival Holdings that are connected to the Ministry of Th e Branch State Archives of the Communications of Ukraine employ- State Service of Special Communica- ees’ participation in the liquidation of tions and Information Protection of the consequences aft er the Chornobyl Ukraine completed with the docu- nuclear power-station disaster. ments that are created Building of the by structural divisions Branch State of the State Service of Archives of the Special Communica- State Service tions and Information of Special Communications Protection of Ukraine, and Information which contain the Protection of information about Ukraine the cryptographic and technical protec- tion of information, 227 organization and OSG Records Management. Central Office and Facility

228 OSG Records Management

OSG is the leading provider of document and data management solutions for companies operat- ing in the CIS and EU. With over 30 years of experience to draw from and award-winning levels of service, OSG has an impres- sive client base of regional and international companies. Largest document storage net- work in Ukraine and beyond OSG became the first docu- ment and data storage and man- agement provider in Ukraine when we opened a new facility Address: 42-44, Shovkovychna Str. Ukraine, Kiev 01004 in Kyiv in 2002. Since then the Horizont Tower company has expanded to the Phone: +380(44)490-12-77 key cities of Kharkiv, Lviv and Fax: +380(44)490-12-00 Web: www.osgrm.ua Odesa. In addition to being mar- ket leaders in Ukraine, OSG’s Transport: Metro (to “Palats Sportu” network of 35 document centers station) stretches across Russia, Poland, Hours M–F 9am-6pm Kazakhstan, Belarus, Bulgaria, of operation: and Armenia. Advanced IT tech- Director: Stanislav Goncharenko nology enables us to support a far wider area. Modern document and data management solutions OSG modern document and data management solutions are designed to improve efficiency and reduce company costs. We can store, sort and scan your paper documents. Our “IT-Ar- chive” lets you move them all to an 229 Tunnel warehouse

National Certificate umentation for inspection. We tai- “Industry lor every document workfl ow solu- Leader – 2010” tion to meet the individual needs of a business. OSG Centers – Modern and Secure OSG centers have excellent secu- rity, climate control and fi re protec- tion. Special racking holds millions of documents which are boxed-up, bar-coded and easy to locate. OSG centers are purpose-built to sort, store, scan and back-up documents and data safely and ef- fectively. We comply fully with all international, EU and regional reg- ulations. Th en we go further and OSG center, improving security and install extra OSG security, fi re pre- the Archive gives you a “paperless” vention and climate control. Our offi ce where staff work faster with trained professionals use advanced e-documents. “IT–Archive” backs technology to deliver an award up your data non-stop, or you can winning service. store tapes in our safe. Confi dential OSG has an impressive client destruction shreds your sensitive base of international and regional 230 waste documents. And our archival leaders, in practically every busi- service expertly prepares your doc- ness sector including: banking, The Central Storage Facility. Ukraine, Kyiv

retail, travel, law, fi nance, telecoms, National Certificate service and oil. Th e majority of For- “Industry tune 500 companies operating in Leader – 2011” Ukraine choose OSG. OSG is the leading provider of document and data management ɞɿɣɫɧɢɦ ɩɿɞɬɜɟɪɞɠɭɽɬɶɫɹ, ɳɨ ɜ ɪɟɡɭɥɶɬɚɬɿ ɪɚɧɠɢɪɭɜɚɧɧɹ ɩɨɧɚɞ 300 ɨɨɨ ɩɿɞɩɪɢɽɦɫɬɜ ɍɤɪɚʀɧɢ ɡɚ ɨɮɿɰɿɣɧɢɦɢ ɞɚɧɢɦɢ Ⱦɟɪɠɚɜɧɨʀ ɫɬɚɬɢɫɬɢɤɢ solutions for companies operating ɌɈȼȺɊɂɋɌȼɈ 3 ɈȻɆȿɀȿɇɈɘ ȼȱȾɉɈȼȱȾȺɅɖɇȱɋɌɘ in the CIS and EU. «ɈɋȽ ɊȿɄɈɊȾɁ ɆȿɇȿȾɀɆȿɇɌ»

OSG has won numerous awards ɅȱȾȿɊ ȽȺɅɍɁȱ 2011 for service and innovation includ- ɩɨɫɿɜɲɢ Ⱦɜɚɞɰɹɬɶ ɱɟɬɜɟɪɬɟ ɦɿɫɰɟ ɫɭɦɚɪɧɨɝɨ ɛɚɥɭ ɜ ɍɤɪɚʀɧɿ ɡɚ ɤɪɢɬɟɪɿɹɦɢ: «Ɉɛɫɹɝ ɪɟɚɥɿɡɨɜɚɧɨʀ ɩɪɨɞɭɤɰɿȱ», «ɉɪɨɞɭɤɬɢɜɧɿɫɬɶ ɩɪɚɰɿ», ing: the European Medal for per- «ɑɢɫɬɢɣ ɩɪɢɛɭɬɨɤ», «Ɂɚɪɨɛɿɬɧɚ ɩɥɚɬɚ» ɡɚ ɨɫɧɨɜɧɢɦ ɜɢɞɨɦ ɞɿɹɥɶɧɨɫɬɿ ɄȼȿȾ 74.87.0- sonal e-fi le and digitization of per- «ɇɚɞɚɧɧɹ ɿɧɲɢɯ ɤɨɦɟɪɰɿɣɧɢɯ ɩɨɫɥɭɝ» sonal data, and the Golden Lion Award for document workfl ow in- novation and standardization in the

Ƚɟɧɟɪɚɥɶɧɢɣ ɫɟɤɪɟɬɚɪ Ɋɚɞɢ Ƚɟɧɟɪɚɥɶɧɢɣ ɞɢɪɟɤɬɨɪ Ƚɨɥɨɜɚ ɨɪɝɤɨɦɿɬɟɬɭ Russian banking industry, diff erent .Ɍɨɪɝɨɜɨ-ɩɪɨɦɢɫɥɨɜɨʀɩɚɥɚɬɢ ɍɤɪɚʀɧɢ ȼȺɌ"ȱȺȺ "ɋɬɚɬɿɧɮɨɪɦɤɨɧɫɚɥɬɢɧɝ" ɇɚɰɿɨɧɚɥɶɧɨɝɨ ɛɿɡɧɟɫ-ɪɟɣɬɢɧɝɭ ȼɿɤɬɨɪ əɧɨɜɫɶɤɢɣ ȼɨɥɨɞɢɦɢɪ ɒɟɥɟɤɟɬɚ ȱɝɨɪ əɪɨɫɥɚɜɫɶɤɢɣ awards in Ukraine ȱ FCTU ɍȿɇȱɌ OSG awards in Ukraine Owner of National Certifi cates: ing). In recognition of long-term “Industry Leader – 2010”, “Industry industry achievements, PRISM Leader – 2011” (according to the International, the global trade as- data from the Ministry of Statistics sociation of information manage- of Ukraine); owner of the awards ment companies, has awarded “Еenterprise of the Year – 2010”, OSG a place on its European Regu- “Еenterprise of the Year – 2011” (ac- latory Committee. 231231 cording to European Standard Rat- Scientifi c and information edition Archives of Ukraine Guide book Edited by Oleksandr Garanin (Editor-in-Chief), Mykola Gorbatiuk, Lyubov Shnurovska

Data about the State Archives were given by directors of central, regional and branch archives of Ukraine

Design and layout: Iryna Shpakovska

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